Deafness Quotes

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  • How little we realize things till they come upon us personally. I believe I have been a perfect fiend of indifference, even intolerance, of deaf people, and now it's me. Well, I am determined to become the most Delightful Deaf Old Lady that ever existed and I am practicing to that end.

    Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
  • Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

    Love   Peace   Heart  
  • I hope I inspire people who hear. Hearing people have the ability to remove barriers that prevent deaf people from achieving their dreams.

    Dream   People   Inspire  
  • Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.

  • I have been writing in spurts, bit by bit. It is incredibly difficult. Everything is corroded, broken, dismantled; everything is covered with hardened layers of accumulated insensitivity, deafness, entrenched routine. It is disgusting.

  • Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

    Loss   People   Deafness  
  • I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

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

    Mind   Ears   Deafness  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

  • If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

    Dumb   Belief   Blind  
    "Robert Anton Wilson: Searching For Cosmic Intelligence". Interview with Jeffrey Elliot,
  • I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.

    Mean   Loss   Men  
    Helen Adams Keller (1933). “Helen Keller in Scotland: A Personal Record Written by Herself”
  • By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

  • People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

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

    Children   Four   Oscars  
  • A fundamental requirement, overriding any other for this job, is an understanding of deafness-what it is and how it affects the educational experience.

  • But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant.

    Mean   Thinking   Talking  
  • I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.

  • Pain collected into deep pockets and I was aware of this painbut somehow I could not seem to feel it. It was like a body-deafness.

    Pain   Pockets   Body  
  • I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.

  • None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

    "Exposition of the Old and New Testament".
  • There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

    Doors   Feet   People  
  • Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

    Giving   Age   Amusement  
  • Let's take my truck," Jim said as he hit the gravel. "Less noise." And it has a radio, right?" With tragic concentration Adrian started warming up his voice, sounding like a moose being backstroked by a chesse grater. Jim shook his head at Eddie as the doors opened "How can you stand that racket?" Selective deafness" Teach me,master.

    Voice   Doors   Noise  
  • No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

  • Differences among deaf people are okay, but we need to recognize those differences and work together.

    "Gallaudet University Interview With Former President I. King Jordan". Interview with Ken Adelman, www.washingtonian.com. March 1, 2006.
  • If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  • The world is his who can see through its pretension.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin
  • But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

    Suffering   Band   Tone  
    John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.439, Penguin
  • Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And colored Southerners had none to hear that which could reduce their anger.

    Dream   Anger   Two  
    Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.181, Pickle Partners Publishing
  • A different language is a different vision of life.

    Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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