Deafness Quotes

48 quotes by 37 authors

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… — Marlee Matlin
The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind. — Marlee Matlin
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. — Horace Walpole
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… — Milan Kundera
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good… — Milan Kundera
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… — Aldous Huxley
I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome… — Helen Keller
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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional… — Alex Haley
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. — William Shakespeare
Brimstone: '...I shall smite thee with my fightful blasting wand so that thy teeth shall drop out, thy skin shall wrinkle, thou shalt have boils… — Herbie Brennan
Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming… — J R Ward
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
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian… — John Berryman
You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted… — Saint Augustine
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
Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people. — Helen Keller
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and… — Oliver Sacks
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

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