Deafens Quotes

#1. The worst of all things that haunt poor mortal men," said I; "and that is, in all its nakedness - 'Fear!' Fear that will not have light or sound, that will not bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms.

H.G.Wells

#2. Everything began all over again immediately: arrival of manuscripts, requests, people's stories, each person mercilessly pushing ahead his own little demand (for love, for gratitude): No sooner has she departed than the world deafens me with its continuance.

Roland Barthes

#3. Against a broken heart, even absurdity falters.
Because words fall away.
A dialogue of silence.
That deafens.

Steven Erikson

#4. We stand a professional distance apart, as if I can't feel his pain screaming in my head. Mine amplifies his; they share a joint sound - that of glass breaking - until they swell to a crescendo that deafens.

Ann Aguirre

#5. Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

John C. Maxwell

#6. Fear blinds and deafens. Rage blinds and deafens. So, too, envy and suspicion. There was only one force stronger than fear.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#7. What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'?

Solange Nicole

#8. Outside is dark.
The kitchen light is loud.
It deafens me as I walk towards it.

Markus Zusak

#9. Eyes and ears are not the problem ... It is rage that blinds and deafens us. Or fear. Envy, mistrust. The world contracts, gets all out of joint when you are angry or afraid.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#10. Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess turns your mind towards madness, and valuing precious things impairs good judgment.

Lao-Tzu

#11. One moment of unwelcomed silence is more disheartening than a lifetime of incessant screams.

And the silence deafens me.

Scott Hildreth

#12. If cats could drive, text and launch missiles, they would rule the world

Quasi

#13. Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

Joe Baca

#14. There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the right-hand page and allow my mind to work on the left-hand page. With a poorly written book I read every word.

Marshall McLuhan

#15. One downside of living with a Were-cheetah is that he purrs when he's happy. At times, the apartment vibrated
all day from MeShack's enjoyment of life.

Kenya Wright

#16. Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.

George R R Martin

#17. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.

David Hanson

#18. Briefly, I was a journalist in my twenties, although not a very good one. I didn't quite grasp the whole concept of accuracy.

Jennifer Finney Boylan

#19. When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. You never did ask each other anything, did you? And you never told each other anything. You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. A deaf-and-dumb asylum, in fact!

Edith Wharton

#21. Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.

Dan Gilroy

#22. Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

Lord Byron

#23. A distinction is made between artists who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Neither if these methods should be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Often both are used in turn by the same man ...

Henri Matisse