Quotes About Deafness

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

My father spoke with his hands. He was deaf. His voice was in his hands. And his hands contained his memories.

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These children, she thought. This generation will all be deaf by thirty.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

El amor es ciego, y sordomudo.

Nothin' plugs a man's ears like money.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

Charles loved her voice. It was so soft and blurred, like pastels. It made his neck tingle just to listen to her. It gave him the same delicious feeling he had as he hovered on the brink of sleep and this feeling - until now - had been the single most pleasant feeling in his life. It was the voice that coloured everything he now thought about her. It was shy and tentative and musical. Sometimes he did not manage to hear the words she said, but he did not let on about his deafness.

they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;

they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.

Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!

Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?

Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.

Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.

The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”