Top 75 Quotes About Deafness
#1. Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?
Myron Uhlberg
#2. And I found out about the wonderful world of sign language. I suddenly realized: If we as a society recognize Jewish culture, gay culture and Latino culture, we must recognize that this is a coherent culture, too. I think deafness is a disability for social constructionist reasons.
Andrew Solomon
#3. What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
Victor Hugo
#4. I didn't hear any of that," he said. "You didn't?" "Nope. Chivalry occasionally causes deafness.
Merrie Haskell
#5. My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.
Jethro Tull
#6. Nothing you say can ensure that the other person will get it, or respond the way you want. You may never exceed his threshold of deafness.
Harriet Lerner
#7. The diagnosis of high-frequency deafness cast a faint shadow over his happiness, but their mutual enjoyment of sex was not much affected, the sounds which accompany it being mostly non-verbal and low frequency in wavelength. Inevitably,
David Lodge
#8. The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.
Michael Dukakis
#9. I think the deafness affects me more than I realise; I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.
Stephanie Beacham
#10. Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.
Lord Chesterfield
#11. I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively - or blindly. I do not care for blindness in any form, I have too much to show - or for deafness, I have too much to say. I do not care to be admired by anyone's heart - only by someone's head.
Ayn Rand
#12. I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces.
Chrissie Perry
#13. Liao writes with the courage of a man who knows loss and doesn't fear it. There is nothing to make him notice like an official injunction against noticing, nothing to make him listen like official deafness, nothing that drives him to make us see like the blindness that officialdom seeks to impose.
Liao Yiwu
#14. Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.
Marlee Matlin
#15. The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.
Marlee Matlin
#16. A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.
Pope Benedict XVI
#17. 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
#18. To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.
Alec Douglas-Home
#19. 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
#20. Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.
Karen Russell
#21. The removal of his infected adenoids and tonsils had not cured Keziah's deafness, but had improved it markedly. He
Diana Gabaldon
#23. You of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot -
Frank Herbert
#24. It's different for each individual. It's different when you talk about homosexuality. It's different when you talk about a malady like deafness. Everybody might have a different response to that and that's what makes it an interesting subject to throw in a movie.
Famke Janssen
#25. I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
David Hockney
#26. I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks.
Scott Lynch
#27. Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
Helen Keller
#29. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.
Milan Kundera
#30. 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
#31. I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything ... except hear.
Marlee Matlin
#32. I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.
Boris Pasternak
#33. A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Aldous Huxley
#34. No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.
Eduardo Galeano
#35. The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,
by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.
Sarah-Patton Boyle
#37. The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
Ernst Mach
#38. The power of the man, with a mind shut down. The strength of the super human. The survival of the species. The deafness of a beast. That's the power of the penis.
Deborah Ainslie
#39. On the other hand, there are only so many people who really knew how she was exactly, like what did her accent sound like, and the fact that she developed profound deafness when she was first running the Harriet Lane.
Mary Stuart Masterson
#40. But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.
Richard Masur
#41. Selective deafness was one of the many time-honored survival mechanisms of motherhood.
Nikki Sex
#42. A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.
Paul Simon
#43. By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace Walpole
#44. Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!
Pierre-Jean De Beranger
#46. Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.
Helen Keller
#47. We all have our handicaps. You're not mine.
Kelly Moran
#48. Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.
Tom Holt
#49. It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.
Jeanette Winterson
#50. The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.
Marlee Matlin
#51. My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.
Myron Uhlberg
#52. And Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.
William Faulkner
#53. Did you just call me a mutt?":
"Yes! Fur, paws..selective deafness. Just like my aunt's lab. He always ignores me unless I have food for him. So ... mutt.
Mina Carter
#54. Metaphorical tone deafness is when people are unable to discern what is of value in something. I think I'm tone deaf to poetry, for instance. Despite having studied it into a second year of university, most of it just leaves me cold.
Julian Baggini
#55. I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' at Chicago's Center on Deafness in Northbrook, Illinois.
Marlee Matlin
#56. Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.
Lord Chesterfield
#57. It's ironic that it was not until I lost my hearing that I finally found my voice. Sign language saved my soul.
Rosie Malezer
#58. The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
John Cheever
#59. We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
Barbara Jordan
#60. Who continued their new policy of feigning deafness whenever Harry mentioned his Malfoy-Is-a-Death-Eater theory.
J.K. Rowling
#61. No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller ... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.
Theodore Zeldin
#62. DEAFNESS DOESN'T PREVENT COMPOSERS HEARING THE MUSIC. IT PREVENTS THEM HEARING THE DISTRACTIONS.
Terry Pratchett
#63. But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness
John Green
#64. Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.
Edward Miner Gallaudet
#65. At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
I. King Jordan
#66. People could play blindness and deafness game when it comes to your work and achievements. But your work will alway be a mega picture in their midst and your words will always be your voice that will never depart from their ears.
Euginia Herlihy
#68. I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.
Marlee Matlin
#69. If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.
Lou Ferrigno
#70. I knew whatever I said right then she wouldn't hear; with that kind of pain, a deafness comes.
Sarah Dessen
#71. (both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)
David Mitchell
#72. Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Frank Herbert
#73. We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches.
Dean Koontz
#74. It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.
Horace Walpole
#75. When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.
Robert H. Lieberman
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