Deaf Quotes
417 quotes by 313 authors
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Yo, yo, yo, check it out," said PJ, with enough hand gestures that any deaf person watching would have thought he had ASL Tourette's syndrome
— Christopher Moore
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...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing…
— Tom Stoppard
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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the…
— Robert Jordan
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I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
— Paulo Coelho
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It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true,…
— P.D. James
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Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?
— Charles Stanley
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Trust me, baby, you weren’t that good. I was just a better actress than you were actor. (Zephyra to Stryker) Ew! No offense, Mum, I…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That…
— William Butler Yeats
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I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people…
— Ismail Kadaré
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You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The…
— Loretta Chase
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After a universal silence, Leo was the first to speak. “Did anyone else notice—†“Yes,†Catherine said. “What do you make of it?†“I haven’t…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
— Daniel Keyes
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A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?
— Vera Nazarian
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Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings…
— Marian Keyes
Who Wrote These Deaf Quotes
313 authors contributed a total of 417 Deaf Quotes, led by these top contributors: