nothing feels quite so good as pouring salt in an open…

When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

— Daniel Handler

When you have an open wound, it's festering and hurting constantly. Then it finally heals and then becomes a scar. Well, pretty soon you're…

— Jeremy Camp

“How living hurt. Living was an open wound.”

— Clarice Lispector

I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than…

— Laura Restrepo

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren't ignoring it. You're…

— Warsan Shire

“Love is an open wound that you hope never heals.”

— Tiffany Reisz

The past is an open wound, a life force busily shaping an increasingly bewildering present.

— Laura van den Berg

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

— Steven Pinker

“To open the wound To write in its blood―with its blood means your realisation through her― the feel of her absence, like a sail,…

— Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

“His presence was somehow a balm on the open wound of my heart.”

— Jasinda Wilder

It feels so good to be amongst some of the biggest legends in music - it feels quite surreal.

— Anne-Marie

It feels quite cool, in a mad way, to be someone who skulks about in the shadows.

— Peter Baynham

Of course there's pressure on you whatever timeslot you're doing, but I think there's more pressure on you as you go into the evening…

— Mel Giedroyc

“My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound.”

— S.R. Grey