Deafness Quotes
48 quotes by 37 authors
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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…
— Richard Masur
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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
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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
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We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark…
— Barbara Jordan
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Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when…
— Saint Augustine
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I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of…
— Helen Keller
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Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.
— Helen Keller
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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;…
— Ernst Mach
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There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of…
— Simon Blackburn
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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…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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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…
— Eduardo Galeano
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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
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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…
— John Cheever
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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.…
— Julian Baggini
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My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.
— Jethro Tull
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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…
— Boris Pasternak
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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.…
— Pierre-Jean de Beranger
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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…
— Frank Herbert
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I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.
— David Hockney
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I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.
— Marlee Matlin
Who Wrote These Deafness Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 48 Deafness Quotes, led by these top contributors: