Desire Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In the joy of her gratified desires she wanted to make everybody about her happy. If only everyone would do as she wished she…

— Edith Wharton

“Her work was all she had or wanted. But there were times, like tonight, when she felt that sudden, peculiar emptiness, which was not…

— Ayn

“You could make people love you, she discovered, by keeping them entertained.”

— Judith Mackrell

“She had passed the spring of youth, but her wit prolonged the triumph of its reign, and they mutually assisted the fame of each…

— Ann Radcliffe

“She was terribly pleased, because she had always, secretly, deep within her heart, believed that she could fly. And now here she was, doing…

— Kate DiCamillo

“Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and…

— Jane Austen

“And her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movements of her own soul and the agitations of the world.”

— Henry James

“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires…

— Gustave Flaubert

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the…

— Anton Chekhov

“They wanted a girl who knew what it was like to acquire things out of amusement rather than need. Who sympathized with those whose…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her…

— Paul Gallico