Desire Quote by Jane Austen

“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking…

— Jane Austen

Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire,…

— Jane Austen

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

— Louisa May Alcott

“She did not realize it herself, but she had so long been accustomed to wanting what she did not have, that to state offhand…

— Eleanor H. Porter

“It was characteristic of her that she remembered her failures as keenly as her triumphs, and that the passionate desire to obliterate, to "get…

— Edith Wharton

“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no…

— William Gibson

She did what she had to do in order to find happiness.

— Babloo

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place…

— Lurlene McDaniel

“It was there. That feeling, that oneness, that she'd always sought, that she'd always longed for, that had always eluded her. It was right…

— Pamela Morsi

“She had given herself to the world in her entirety and then found nothing was left”

— Angela Carter

“She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She waited in vain. She saw no pictures…

— Kate Chopin

“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind of cockiness,…

— Willa Cather