Quotes About Deafness

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Due to sin, the knowledge of God provided by the sensus divinitatis, prior to faith and regeneration, is both narrowed in scope and partially suppressed. The faculty itself may be diseased and thus partly or wholly disabled. There is such a thing as cognitive disease; there is blindness, deafness, inability to tell right from wrong, insanity; and there are analogues of these conditions with respect to the operation of the sensus divinitatis.

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

When I was young I knew I was deaf. I couldn't accept it.

When I was 11, I knew that I wanted to write a kid's book and tell the world what it was like being deaf.

I was very shy. I didn't really hang around with hearing people very much. Mostly I had deaf friends.

I really wanted to change the idea of what is possible and to show that 'deaf can' and what better place to do that than on national television?

I'm totally deaf in my right ear, yeah.

I'm really excited to educate the world about what deaf people can do.

Am I complaining about my deafness? No, I am not.

One of the reasons I wanted to teach deaf children was because it made me very sad that they spoke so clumsily and that they moved with less grace that I knew was possible of deaf people.

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness.

He can't hear you. His ears are full of shit

Vocês contemplam, mas não têm olhos; ouvem, mas os vossos ouvidos estão surdos. Porque em vocês não há amor divino, porque são como barris vazios…

I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

When humanity's deafness to simple common sense is allowed to reign, the implications for the world can only be catastrophic.

Cosa rara, su voz que conocía tan bien, de la que se dice que es el grano mismo del recuerdo (" la querida inflexión..."), no la oigo. Como una sordera localizada...

She gazed into space, afflicted by sudden deafness, a common disorder in felines.

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Did he? Jenny lowered her voice. Shall I tell you what I think of that man? I think he's slightly sinister. Having made this pronouncement, she entered the ivory tower of her deafness and closed the door. Denis could not induce her to say anything more, could not induce her even to listen. She just smiled at him, smiled and occasionally nodded.

A deaf man summoned a deaf man to be judged By a deaf Judge.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.