Quotes About Deafness

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

Although I'm deaf in only my left ear, when there is noise all around, I'm unable to distinguish sounds and can't hear anything.

No one can see me, no one knows me; All men are deaf, no ears disclose me

Close to birth... I lost, like, 80 percent of my hearing, and I had difficulty speaking.

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.

I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.

I would say that we are living in an age that is increasingly spiritually blind and morally deaf. The man who does not shout is not going to be heard.

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.

Aures habet, et non audiet.

The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.

Tous étant sourds pour lui, il n'avait pas été sourd pour elle

Often in the past, when we have had a deaf person in the spotlight, we have been portrayed badly. It was up to me to change that.

A friend of mine has a son who became deaf through meningitis. He called me one spring and asked me to keep a week out of my schedule because he wanted to start a school for deaf kids. I wanted to help.

I'm half deaf. I have nerve damage and a constant ringing in both of my ears, and there are certain times and conditions when I can hardly hear at all.

Dumbness comes from the fact that a child is born deaf and that it consequently never learns how to articulate, for it is by the medium of hearing that such instruction is acquired.

There are none who are as deaf as those who do not want to hear." —BARRY LEVENTHAL

Shakespeare a plagiarist Beethoven with a horn stuck into his head against deafness the impossibility the impossibility Nietzsche gone totally mad the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

Seriously, I don't find not being able to hear an obstacle or a boundary. For me, and for many of us, it is an advantage, and it's a part of my identity, in fact. It's a huge part of who I am.

Throughout the USA hundreds of people, most of whom are poor and members of minorities, are languishing in jails and mental hospitals, their rights to a speedy trial, due process, and justice abandoned. These people have two things in common – they are deaf and they cannot sign or speak.

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

To my deafness I'm accustomed, To my dentures I'm resigned, I can manage my bifocals, But Oh how I miss my mind.

and Judith, the young girl dreaming, not living, in her complete detachment and imperviousness to actuality almost like physical deafness.