“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”
The Last Lecture (2008)
“The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”
"The Salt of the Earth"
Source: The Harsh Voice: Four Short Novels (1935)
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Andrei Sakharov
(1921–1989) Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), Dangers, Police Dictatorships
Context: From 1936 to 1939 more than 1.2 million Party members, half of the total membership, were arrested. Only fifty thousand regained freedom; the others were tortured during interrogation or were shot (six hundred thousand) or died in camps. Only in isolated cases were the rehabilitated allowed to assume responsible posts; even fewer were permitted to take part in the investigation of crimes of which they had been witnesses or victims.
We are often told lately not to "rub salt into wounds." This is usually being said by people who suffered no wounds. Actually only the most meticulous analysis of the past and of its consequences will now enable us to wash off the blood and dirt that befouled our banner.
“I don't want to drop salt on the wound, as it already hurts.”
Viktor Yanukovych
(1950) Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine
Speaking of the proposed increases of utility prices
Source: [Янукович взялся за старое, хоть и не хочет “капать соль на рану”, http://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2009/05/28/4487095/, 2022-06-12, Украинская правда, ru, 2009-05-28]
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
Karen Blixen
(1885–1962) Danish writer
As quoted in Reader's Digest (April 1964)
Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.
Variant: The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.