Deaf Quotes - Page 17

• I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up... I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

  Claude Monet

  Light, Color, Long

  "Monet in the 20th Century". Book by Paul Hayes Tucker, 1998.

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• I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Beautiful, People, Worry

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• There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Power, Men, Advice

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• When late I attempted your pity to move,
  Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers?
  Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love
  But-why did you kick me downstairs?

  John Philip Kemble

  Life, Prayer, Moving

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• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

  John Updike

  Input, Faces, Blind

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.252, Random House

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• How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not be confined within the net of heaven. But in the end all things return to the One. The deaf and the dumb, the crippled and deformed are all restored to One's perfection.

  Hsu Yun

  Spiritual, Light, Perfection

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• Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, People

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.51, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Country, Eye, Opportunity

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.472, e-artnow

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• I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man; but to them I turn a deaf ear.

  James M. Barrie

  Science, Men, Research

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Lady Nicotine - A Study in Smoke (Annotated Edition)”, p.51, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Matter, Mistrust

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

  Marlee Matlin

  Accepting, Young

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• Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

  Thomas Beecham

  Music, Men, Lasts

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• The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

  Conor Oberst

  Together, Blind, Torah

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• 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.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Two

  Victor Hugo (1904). “Notre Dame of Paris”

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• I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Rocks, Hands, Voice

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• I am at the moment deaf in the ears, hoarse in the throat, red in the nose, green in the gills, damp in the eyes, twitchy in the joints and fractious in temper from a most intolerable and oppressive cold.

  Charles Dickens

  Health, Eye, Noses

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.14344, Delphi Classics

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• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Noble

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• It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Prejudice, Speak, Tradition

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.282, A&C Black

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• APD is primarily defined as a lack of empathy,' I said. I'd looked it up too, a few months ago. Empathy is what allows people to interpret emotion, the same way ears interpret sounds; without it you become emotionally deaf. 'It means I don't connect emotionally with other people. I wondered if he was going to pick that one.' 'How do you even know that?' she said. 'You're fifteen years old, for goodness' sake. You should be ... I don't know, chasing girls or playing video games.' 'You're telling a sociopath to chase girls?

  Dan Wells

  Girl, Mean, Years

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.41, Macmillan

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• Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

  Tom Stoppard

  Song, Real, Mean

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Tom Stoppard Plays 5: The Real Thing; Night & Day; Hapgood; Indian Ink; Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Real, Selfishness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.274, The Floating Press

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• When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent when Marc did, as if I could see peoples mouths moving, but I couldnt hear what they were saying. Like I'd gone deaf.

  Rachel Vincent

  Moving, Gone, Calling

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.150, MIRA

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• I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

  Richard Griffiths

  Childhood, Parent, Dumb

  "Richard Griffiths: 'I've always hated the way I look'" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2005.

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• We supplicate all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind. Let them do everything in their power to save peace. By so doing they will spare the world the horrors of a war that would have disastrous consequences, such as nobody can foresee.

  Pope John XXIII

  Military, War, World

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• He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Deaf And Blind

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2552, Delphi Classics

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