Apathy Quote by Paul Neilan

“One of the best things about being deaf is that you can't hear anyone talking smack about you.”

— Ashley Fiorek

“I was the only student she’d taught who’d actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they’d…

— Lou Ann Walker

“I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. That way I wouldn't have to have any goddam stupid…

— J.D. Salinger

“Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.”

— Tom Holt

“In complete silence you can’t hear a thing. Just ask a deaf person—but ask them with your fingers.”

— Jarod Kintz

“It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Gonna pretend to be a deaf mute who knows no sign one day, meet a woman, and we'll write for the rest of our…

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“When she'd read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up. It put a pain in…

— Katherine Hannigan

“I felt like the ocean. I felt like my insides were spread out so far and wide and there were so many things inside…

— Anna Akana

“I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas and oil in people's cars. I didn't care what kind…

— J.D. Salinger

“The noise and bustle nowadays made you blind and deaf and deadened all sensation.”

— Vicki Baum

“I had to learn I wasn’t deaf. I had to start speaking out.”

— Lou Ann Walker