Capture Quote by Erik Pevernagie

The Deaf population is not a monolith. It's so layered, so complicated. It's happy, it's sad, it's angry. The gamut of human emotion, amplified.

— Paul Raci

The handicap of deafness is not in the ear; it is in the mind.

— Marlee Matlin

I love that being deaf gives you a different perception of life. It makes you more empathetic.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

A lot of deaf people experience feeling left out. Feeling lonely.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

— Harriet Martineau

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness…

— Horace Walpole

I like to say that the greatest handicap of deafness does not lie in the ear, it lies in the mind. I hope that…

— Marlee Matlin

I always say deafness is a silent disability: you can't see, and it's not life-threatening, so it has to touch your life in some…

— Rachel Shenton

Kindness, a language deaf people can hear and blind see

— Anonymous

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…

— Julian Baggini

There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people…

— Sean Berdy

It can be frustrating, playing a hearing person's perception of what a deaf person is like.

— Rose Ayling-Ellis