“I have one great desire.”

“You cannot have a greater desire to conform Ireland to the Church of England, than I (and this with as seeming great a desire of the King) to conform Scotland to the Church of England.”

“This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.”

“This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.”

“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

“Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.”

“I believe in the goodness of fellow human beings. We have a true desire for greatness and genuine good intention to be helpful to others. That's enough. Change is possible.”

“I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.”

“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.”

“Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern… Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.”