Deaf Blindness Quotes

#1. We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

Zhuangzi

#2. The cataract of grief is a longer drop than Niagara, and I guess I've not reached the river of acceptance at the bottom.

Dean Koontz

#3. A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#4. Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

Khalil Gibran

#5. We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

Martin Luther King Jr.

#6. When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.

Sue Townsend

#7. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.

Kiki Smith

#8. I shut my eyes
and see a pocket of darkness.
I want to fold myself
flat and crisp,
slip inside of it
like a sheet of paper
into an envelope.

Samantha Schutz

#9. I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I'm not obsessive; I don't play in the dark, but even that's not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.

Jasper Carrott

#10. I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. [If] I'm talking about something, that doesn't mean I'm necessarily doing it.

Clint Black

#12. And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

Graham Greene

#13. There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.

George R R Martin

#14. And the blind man said to the deaf man, Do you see what I hear?

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#15. If you are a manufacturer, an Internet company doesn't suit you. An Internet company does not display your product; it can't upsell. But we do a better job than any of the opposition.

Gerry Harvey

#16. The expectation of future glory and the joy of future redemption has its counterpart here and now in the implications for the present life of the believer.

Henry R. Van Til

#17. Ah," said Lien Shu, "it is true that a blind person cannot appreciate beautiful patterns and forms, and the deaf cannot appreciate the music of bells and drums. Yet blindness and deafness do not only afflict people physically, they also exist in the minds and attitudes of people.

Zhuangzi

#18. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say.

Joseph Conrad

#19. The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

Richard P. Feynman

#20. Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

Craig Ferguson

#21. I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are

Suzanne Collins

#22. Doctrine is not belief, it is only one way of talking about belief.

Marilynne Robinson