Deaf Quotes - Page 10

• If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Dog, Ifs

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “Heritage and Exile”, p.56, Penguin

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• Trying to describe my life and feelings to you is like trying to describe coulours to the blind, or music to the deaf. It's simply not possible.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Feelings, Trying, Blind

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• And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Sweet, Kissing, Focus

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• Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.

  John Gielgud

  Luck, Sides, Living On

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• If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

  Jane Roberts

  Eye, Feet, Tongue

  Jane Roberts (1984). “God of jane: a psychic manifesto”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm not. I clear my throat to show myself that everything is normal. It's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima. Everything dead; and she was singing to her doll.

  John Fowles

  Girl, Thinking, Singing

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• The lions sing and the hills take flight.
  The moon by day, and the sun by night.
  Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
  Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

  Robert Jordan

  Children, Moon, Night

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• The sorcerer's description of the world is perceivable. But our insistence on holding on to our standard version of reality renders us almost deaf and blind to it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Reality, Deaf And Blind, World

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• Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

  Francine Pascal

  Broken Heart, Dumb, Blind

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  May, Matter, Scripture

  P. G. Wodehouse (2008). “Right Ho, Jeeves (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.183, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And as I grew older, I then auditioned for the Royal Academy of Music in London, and they said, well, no, we won't accept you, because we haven't a clue - you know - of the future of a so-called 'deaf' musician. And I just couldn't quite accept that.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Musician, London, Royal

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• Just remember if we get caught, you're deaf and I don't speak English.

  Rick Riordan

  Speak English, Remember, Caught

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• Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or three. This coming and going of the inner life - because this is what it is - is a curse and a blessing. I don't need to explain why it's a curse. A blessing because it brings about a movement, an energy which, when it peaks, creates a poem. Or a moment of happiness.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Blessing, Two, Energy

  Interview with Anna Maria Hong, www.pw.org. August 13, 2004.

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• The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Sleep, Mean, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “The Works of Whittier, Volume III (of VII) Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform”, p.150, tredition

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• Right now there’s a man on the street outside my door with outstretched hands full of heartbeats no one can hear. He has cheeks like torn sheet music every tear-broken crescendo falling on deaf ears. At his side there’s a boy with eyes like an anthem no one stands up for.

  Andrea Gibson

  Fall, Eye, Boys

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.58, SCB Distributors

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• The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

  Ellis Peters

  Talking, Voice, Ears

  Ellis Peters (2014). “Brother Cadfael's Penance”, p.68, Head of Zeus

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• A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

  Harold Larwood

  Australia, Would Be, Cricket

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• Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why but the editorialists forget it terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

  John Berger

  Lying, Media, Political

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• I never taught a blind/deaf chick to read, but somehow I've managed to turn Scrubs into a watchable show. That may not sound like much, but take a look at my surrounding cast and ask yourself, who's the real miracle worker?

  Zach Braff

  Real, Miracle, Sound

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• Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Hands, Sound

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world....No doubt pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of the rebel soul.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Opportunity, Men

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• Air ye deaf, lass?" I think. He might have called me a hairy jackass

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Air, Might

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.24, Delacorte Press

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• If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the greatness of the world, all that which was mine and yours, which was made by us and is still ours by right - because I cannot believe that men refuse to see, that they can remain blind and deaf to us forever, when the truth is ours and their lives depend on accepting it.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Believe, Greatness

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• (...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

  Christopher McCandless

  Strong, Hands, Finding Yourself

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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