Love Quotes by Michael Ondaatje

How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.

— Michael Ondaatje

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

— Michael Ondaatje

I thought I was being loved because I was being altered.

— Michael Ondaatje

I promised to tell you how one falls in love.

— Michael Ondaatje

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out

— Michael Ondaatje

...the heart is an organ of fire.

— Michael Ondaatje

Love is the use one makes of another.

— Michael Ondaatje

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

— Michael Ondaatje

“-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover? I said nothing.…

— Michael Ondaatje

Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.

— Michael Ondaatje

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

— Michael Ondaatje

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

— Michael Ondaatje

“He refused to believe in his own weaknesses, and with her he had not found a weakness to fit himself against.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Her body had been in a war and, as in love, it had used every part of itself.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“But isn’t it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love?”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Soldiers were coming in with just bits of their bodies, falling in love with me for an hour and then dying.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything…

— Michael Ondaatje

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would…

— Michael Ondaatje

“He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a…

— Michael Ondaatje

Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you.…

— Michael Ondaatje

“All over the world there must be people like us, Anna had said then, wounded in some way by falling in love…

— Michael Ondaatje

She had grown older. And he loved her more now than he had loved her when he understood her better, when she…

— Michael Ondaatje

“She loves most the wet colours of his neck when he bathes. And his chest with with its sweat which her fingers…

— Michael Ondaatje

Tell me, is it possible to love someone who is not as smart as you are? ...But isn't it important for you…

— Michael Ondaatje

A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it…

— Michael Ondaatje

Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there…

— Michael Ondaatje

“But nothing is said of the closeness between two people: how they grew in the shade of each other's presence. No one…

— Michael Ondaatje

I believe this. When we meet those we fall in love with, there is an aspect of our spirit that is historian,…

— Michael Ondaatje

“There are stories of elopements, unrequited love, family feuds and exhausting vendettas, which everyone was drawn into, had to be involved with.…

— Michael Ondaatje

“Truth disappears with history and gossip tells us in the end nothing of personal relationships. There are stories of elopements, unrequited love,…

— Michael Ondaatje

“July 1936 There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lover enters the…

— Michael Ondaatje

“And Hana moves possibly in the company that is not her choice. She, at even this age, thirty-four, has not found her…

— Michael Ondaatje

“My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone…

— Michael Ondaatje

“And he loved my mother. I saw him on the last days of his life lift that oil-scented right hand and enter…

— Michael Ondaatje

“As if this collection of things is what she is. So we fall in love with ghosts.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Don’t we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.”

— Michael Ondaatje

What began it all was the bright bone of a dream I could hardly hold onto.

— Michael Ondaatje

I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

— Michael Ondaatje

“I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.”

— Michael Ondaatje