Hearing Loss Quotes

• The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted.

  Marion Ross

  Loss, People, Rude

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

  Helen Keller

  Loss, People, Deafness

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• The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

  Robert Frost

  Writing, Ears, Icy

  Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press

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• Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Loss, Laughing, Matter

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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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• It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Italo Calvino

  Communication, Voice, Stories

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, ch. 9, 1974.

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• We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Asking Questions, Answers, Position

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• But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Distance, Loss

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• See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

  Ken Kesey

  Eye, Loss, Ears

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• Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Loss, Voice

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “From "The Princess"”

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• Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.

  Marion Ross

  Loss, Often Is, Denial

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• Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us.

  Andrew Miller

  Mean, Loss, Talking

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• Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

  Pete Townshend

  Loss, Hearing, Terrible

  "Listen (If You Can) to Pete". www.wired.com. January 04, 2006.

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• Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them.

  Marion Ross

  Loss, Talking, Numbers

  "Interview with Marion Ross, Mrs. Cunningham from Happy Days". Interview with Paul Dybala, www.audiologyonline.com. February 27, 2006.

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• To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

  Octavio Paz

  Eye, Poetry, Ears

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.66, Arcade Publishing

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  Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Song, Intelligence

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• Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.

  Helen Keller

  Children, Distance, Fall

  Helen Keller (2003). “The Story of My Life: The Restored Edition”, p.81, Modern Library

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• The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Loss, Men, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.128, Penguin

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• What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Life, Eye, Loss

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• The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.

  Tommy Smothers

  Ideas, People, Censorship

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• I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.

  Gayl Jones

  Writing, People, Listening

  Gayl Jones (2005). “White Rat: Short Stories”, Harlem Moon

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• Princes have big ears which hear far and near.

  Elizabeth I

  Loss, Ears, Bigs

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• Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.

  Mason Cooley

  Advice, Ears, Mouths

  "City Aphorisms, Second Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1985.

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• Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Loss, People, Perfect

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• The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Listening, Speech, Hearing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.293, Penguin

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