You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s…

Let us sculpt in hopeless silence all our dreams of speaking.

— Fernando Pessoa

Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she…

— Richard Brautigan

For he who is not deaf, half a silence is enough.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

— Richard Masur

Despite my mentors advice that I would never go to heaven fishing with a weighted nymph and a float, I took it up. (As…

— Tony Bishop

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

— Norman Mailer

“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

I will love you till a mute women tells his deaf friend about a blind women that saw a girl with no legs walking…

— Anonymous

Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For…

— Pierce Brosnan

In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

— Carl Karcher

My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that…

— Zach Galifianakis

“The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask?”

— Anthony Liccione

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!”

— Miriam Lichtheim

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis