Atrophy Quote by Marcel Proust

My dad lost his hearing in the last 18 months of his life, and as a result, I witnessed first-hand the effect that this…

— Rachel Shenton

Many patients cannot hear until they feel heard.

— Leston Havens

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

— Deepak Chopra

“Time and again I heard my grandmother Wells say she would give her own hearing to make her daughter “whole.” In her mind, deafness…

— Lou Ann Walker

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the…

— Edward Miner Gallaudet

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own,…

— Oliver Sacks

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions.…

— Barbara Jordan

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.

— Nadine Gordimer

Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of…

— George Kennedy

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

— Marlee Matlin