Top 64 Open Wound Sayings
#1. I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
Randa Haines
#2. Interpretative thoughts settle on a bare sensory perception like a swarm of blue-bottles on an open wound.
Nanamoli Thera
#3. Love is an open wound that you hope never heals.
Tiffany Reisz
#4. I learned early on that love was treacherous, leaving my heart like an open wound for others to infect.
Maggie Young
#5. A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#6. With that, Adam was placed into a deep sleep, his side wounded, and from that open wound was brought forth a soft-glowing bone.
Gene Edwards
#7. 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
#8. There is no protection. To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal. Even if scars form, the festering is ever below.
Toni Morrison
#9. I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#10. An open mind is like to an open wound. Vulnerable to poison. Liable to fester. Apt to give its owner only pain.
Joe Abercrombie
#11. The chilly mist settled down around them, sinking like midnight into his bones. His arm hurt, and his heart felt like an open wound in his chest.
Laura Kinsale
#12. Nothing feels quite so good as pouring salt in an open wound.
Tammy Blackwell
#13. You ooze joy and she is an open wound, shrill and wan, unfucked and unloved.
Caroline Kepnes
#14. My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
Griffin Dunne
#15. For some, excavating the past isn't an adventure, it's more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
Raquel Cepeda
#16. they always mentioned his name. For her, it was as if they were constantly squeezing lemon juice on an open wound.
Amanda Laneley
#17. I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.
Laura Restrepo
#18. Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.
Richard J. Foster
#19. He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears. He was still human, and someone should prove it to him.
Tonya Burrows
#20. His presence was somehow a balm on the open wound of my heart.
Jasinda Wilder
#21. It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.
Michael Moore
#22. An open mind is like to an open wound,' growled Glokta. 'Vulnerable to poison.
Joe Abercrombie
#23. I think you learn to live with the pain of miscarrying. The open wound heals and becomes a scar. Not as raw, but always there. A part of you- your heart.
Ellen DuBois
#24. The sun had long set, but one blood-red gash like an open wound lay low in the distant west.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#25. Just take Germany and the suffering of Jews during and after the Second World War. It would be legal to ridicule and to laugh at this suffering, but since it was such a trauma on the European conscience, no one is going to do it. It is an open scar, an open wound, an open reality.
Tariq Ramadan
#26. There was a contradiction within Vikas, an open wound: though he was fascinated by the poor, good at joshing with them, he was afraid, thanks to his bourgeois background, of being perceived as poor. Poverty equaled failure.
Karan Mahajan
#27. the most important thing about mental health - It hurts just as much as any broken limb or open wound; the only difference is that you cannot physically see it in it's entirety.
Hannah Todd
#29. You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
Ai Yazawa
#30. My tats were but temporal attempts to heal my soul, as my heart remained an open wound.
S.R. Grey
#31. Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ ... It is a crime against humanity.
Pope Francis
#32. Without you, this part of myself that's open now isn't an opportunity. It's an open wound. Every time you shut down, it bleeds.
C.D. Reiss
#33. Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.
Marita Golden
#34. Feeling quiet and empty, he told himself that he would be all right tomorrow. He would forgive himself the weakness of this night, it was like the tears one is permitted at a funeral, and then one learns how to live with an open wound or with a crippled factory.
Ayn Rand
#35. I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.
Lady Gaga
#36. The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
Jacques Derrida
#37. She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ...
John Updike
#38. Had he healed one wound only to open another?
Mary Balogh
#39. People use each other
as a healing for their pain. They put each other
on their existential wound,
on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand.
They hold each other and won't let go.
Yehuda Amichai
#40. To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive
Maeve Binchy
#41. It is as if producing a creative work tears a piece from your soul. When it is ripped completely free of you, the wound must bleed for a while. How similar it is to letting go of a dream, your hope, or your heart's desire. You must open up and let it drain.
Lynn Cullen
#42. Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.
Michael Ayrton
#43. I'll take it. I'll take his words like a daring covenant, not knowing yet what's to come: there is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound - no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seeds of a deeper growth.
Ann Voskamp
#44. Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#45. Rhys lowered his heard, his mouth on hers before he knew what was happening. Her lips moved beneath his, open and eager. He groaned and wound his arms around her. The kiss was ecstasy, bliss
pure rapture.
Desire blazed through him as hot as dragon fire.
Donna Grant
#46. Every time you rip the bandages off, you just open the wound up again. Every time he sees you, it's like tearing off the bandages.
Cassandra Clare
#47. A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.
Yehuda Amichai
#48. Please don't do this - don't do this to me. If anything happened to you - "
He looked at her with surprise. There was already a red stain on the white bandages that wrapped his chest, where his movements had pulled his wound open. "I ... "
"What?"
"I'm not used to you loving me," he said.
Cassandra Clare
#49. I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
Cynthia Ozick
#50. The people moving in beat beside us have no idea what awful thing we're doing, what horrible, festering wound we've just ripped back open.
Stevie J. Cole
#51. Grief will happen either as an open healing wound or a closed festering wound, either honestly or dishonestly, either appropriately or inappropriately. But emotions will be expressed.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#52. For every bandaged wound
I'll scrape another open
Adrienne Rich
#53. Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#54. Kiera was a scar across my heart that would never fully heal, no matter how many random encounters I placed across it. My poor imitations of her were only ripping open the wound again and again. Good or bad, she was forever a part of me. Kellan Kyle
S.C. Stephens
#55. If Messenger would be to open his mouth right now, his voice would be a terrible wound.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#56. The thing about love - no one is untouchable. It's as wild as that, as raw as an open flesh wound exposed to salty sea water, but when it actually breaks, it's silent. You're just screaming on the inside and no one can hear it.
Cecelia Ahern
#57. It was hard to be honest, to open up, and reveal something that sounded crazy. Because once you told someone the truth, that person had a piece of you - and they could belittle it, destroy it. They could turn your confession into a wound that never healed.
Sarah Cross
#58. Just leave me alone, I want to be alone, she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.
Sarah Mayberry
#59. The protesters, in Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv, revealed an open and raw wound at the heart of Israeli society, the pain of a community crying out over a sense of discrimination, racism, and of being unanswered.
Reuven Rivlin
#60. One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
Edmond Jabes
#62. Uses that blade to slice open his hand and suck the scarlet blood from the wound before drawing up and spitting it into Roque's face.
Pierce Brown
#63. It's like surgery. You can't close the patient's chest until you've found the wound and operated on it. The problem is the open chest, the wound is the challenge and the YES is the operation. You
Shonda Rhimes
#64. He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss of a father, for it will never happen a second time: might as well leave the wound open.
Umberto Eco
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