Adult life Quote by Helen Keller

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days during their…

— Helen Keller

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

— Shane Koyczan

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

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in…

— Khalil Gibran

After six hours of being blind, you lose the sense of how a person is physically. It was amazing to hear the little buzzing…

— Jamie Foxx

Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

— John Heywood

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

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be…

— Sue Townsend

I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so…

— William Eggleston

I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those…

— Helen Keller

I would rather be blind than deaf. That way I could advance in my imagination.

— Anette Sandberg

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