Michael Ondaatje Quotes about Heart

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We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Michael Ondaatje

Love, Heart, Loss

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

Michael Ondaatje

Morning, Heart, Cutting

"The English Patient". www.imdb.com. 1996.

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing—not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

Michael Ondaatje

Heart, Mean, Sleep

Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.104, A&C Black

Nowadays he doesn't think of his wife, though he knows he can turn around and evoke every move of her, describe any aspect of her, the weigh of her wrist on his heart during the night.

Michael Ondaatje

Moving, Heart, Night

Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.39, Vintage

Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

Michael Ondaatje

Father, Heart, Way

Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.265, Vintage

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart, if one cuts it out is replaced with fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid amount of the missing heart.

Michael Ondaatje

Morning, Heart, Cutting

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.

Michael Ondaatje

Betrayal, War, Heart

FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Nov 22, 2015