Desire

Desire may refer to:

Concepts

• Desire (emotion), a sense of longing or hoping
• Desire (philosophy)
• Greed, one of the seven deadly sins, selfish pursuit of wealth, power, or possessions
• Interpersonal attraction
• Libido, sexual desire according to Freud and psychoanalysis
• Limerence, an involuntary state of intense romantic desire
• Lust, intense craving for self gratification
• Motivation, a thought that leads to an action
• Preference, a concept in the social sciences, particularly economics
• Taṇhā, craving in Buddhist psychology
• Want, in economics

Music

Albums

• Desire (Bob Dylan album)
• Desire (Pharoahe Monch album), or the title song
• Desire (Tom Scott album), or the title song
• Desire (Toyah album), or the title song
• Desire (Tuxedomoon album), or the title song

Songs

• "Desire" (Andy Gibb song)
• "Desire" (Claudette Pace song)
• "Desire" (Darin song)
• "Desire" (Do As Infinity song)
• "Desire" (Geri Halliwell song)
• "Desire" (Luna Sea song)
• "Desire" (Ryan Adams song)
• "Desire" (U2 song)
• "Desire", by En Vogue from Funky Divas
• "Desire", by Holly Valance from State of Mind
• "Desire", by Ozzy Osbourne from No More Tears
• "Desire", by Poets of the Fall from Carnival of Rust
• "Desire", by Raheem DeVaughn from Love Behind the Melody
• "Desire", by Roni Griffith
• "Desire", by Suicide Commando from Construct-Destruct
• "Desire", by Talk Talk from Spirit of Eden
• "Desire", by Toad the Wet Sprocket from Coil
• "Desire", by Vassy
• "Desire", by Yanni from Dare to Dream
• "Desire", by Yello from Stella

Performers

• Desire (band), an American/Canadian electronic act
• Désiré (baritone) (1823–1873), French baritone

Film and television

• Desire (1920 film), a British film of the 1920s directed by George Edwardes-Hall
• Desire (1921 film), a German film directed by F.W. Murnau
• Desire (1936 film), a film starring Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper
• Desire (1958 film), a Czech film directed by Vojtěch Jasný
• Desire (1968 film), a South Korean film featuring Kim Ji-mee
• Desire (1974 film), a Hong Kong film starring Tony Liu
• Desire (1982 film), a Filipino-American film directed by Eddie Romero
• Desire (1993 film), an American film starring Kate Hodge
• Desire (2000 film), a film featuring Martin Donovan
• Desires (film), a 1952 German film
• Desire (TV series), an American telenovela
• Desire Inc., a 1990 video documentary by Lynn Hershman
• "Desire", an episode of Grey's Anatomy

Comics

• Desire (DC Comics), a fictional character in The Sandman comic series
• Desire (manga), a yaoi manga written by Maki Kazumi and illustrated by Yukine Honami

Other uses

• Desire Street, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Desire Area, New Orleans
  • Desire Projects
• Desire (ship), a ship sailed by 16th-century explorers Thomas Cavendish and John Davis
• HTC Desire, an Android-based phone by HTC
• USS Desire (SP-786), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919
• Desire, a line of LED luminaires produced by Electronic Theatre Controls

See also

• Désiré, a French male given name
• Crave (disambiguation)
• Greed (disambiguation)
• Hunger (disambiguation)