Deafness Quotes

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

  Victor Hugo

  What Matters, Mind, Ears

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• My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

  Jethro Tull

  Explanation

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• The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

  Michael Dukakis

  Congratulations, Long, People

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• 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.

  Boris Pasternak

  Writing, Broken, Routine

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

  Marlee Matlin

  Obstacles, Living My Life, I Live My Life

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

  Helen Keller

  Loss, People, Blindness

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• Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Secret

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Mean, Loss, Men

  Helen Adams Keller (1933). “Helen Keller in Scotland: A Personal Record Written by Herself”

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• 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.

  Richard Masur

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

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• 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.

  Marlee Matlin

  Kids, Four, Want

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• 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.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Party, Tired, Thinking

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• I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear.

  Marlee Matlin

  Attitude, Wings, Example

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

  Horace Walpole

  Missing, Gains, Nonsense

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

  Marlee Matlin

  Dream, People, Inspire

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• Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.

  William Shakespeare

  Tempest, Cures, Tales

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 106

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

  Marlee Matlin

  Mind, Ears, Handicaps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

  Ernst Mach

  Philosophy, Men, Medicine

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, World, May

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.42, Penguin

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• No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller... whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Victory, Important, Overcoming

  "An Intimate History of Humanity". Book by Theodore Zeldin, 1994.

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• Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena.

  Edward Miner Gallaudet

  Appreciation, Intellectual, Development

  Edward Miner Gallaudet, Lance J. Fischer, David L. De Lorenzo (1983). “History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907”, p.255, Gallaudet University Press

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• I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Ifs

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, American Scholar, Pretension

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.

  John Cheever

  Men, Organization, Perfection

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• You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted for You. I tasted, and I hunger and thirst. You touched me, and I burned for Your peace.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Hunger And Thirst, Odor

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• The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.
  Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

  Milan Kundera

  Understanding, Age, Too Late

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1979.

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