Deaf Quotes - Page 9

• I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring.
  Each year I discover new sights and sounds to teach me how blind and deaf I must still be.

  Louis J. Halle

  Spring, Men, Years

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• When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Men, Speaks Out

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.177, Vintage

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• I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.

  Ben Jonson

  Love Is, Thinking, Blind

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.814

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• I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Space, Sound

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.

  Muhammad

  Positive, Asking For Help, Doors

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• Take her home. And-" "Say nothing- yes, yes, I heard you the first seven hundred times," Myrnin said, much too sharply. "I'm ancient. I'm not deaf.

  Rachel Caine

  Home, Firsts, Ancient

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Bite Club”, p.70, Allison & Busby

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• I'm not really deaf; I just faked it to win the Oscar KIDDING.

  Marlee Matlin

  Winning, Oscars, Deafness

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• So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

  Norman Mailer

  Voice, Warning, Blind

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential Errands”

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• I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the characters on our muted TV, waving their hands and screaming and never saying a word out loud.

  Dan Wells

  Character, Hands, Just Being

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.43, Macmillan

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• Everything I said he agreed with, which was trying, and his flute playing would make the deaf wince, but I think the real problem with Hyacinth was that he reminded me of myself. He read poetry. He flinched at loud noises. In addition to having no musical skills, he had no martial skills. He avoided any situation that might require physical effort on his part. Seeing him, I found it no wonder that my father despised me.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Father, Real, Reflection

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• Unfortunately, the heart played its own tune, and it was deaf to what the head tried to tell it.’ – Abigail

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heart, Tunes, Abigail

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• The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs

  Stephen Fry

  Sorry, Heaven, Language Development

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• Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn't going to make me deaf. I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me.

  John Green

  Cancer, Eye, Grace

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

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• Beer makes people deaf.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beer, People

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.63, Scholastic UK

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• Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy Album, 2003.

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• Until I lose my soul and lie Blind to the beauty of the earth, Deaf though shouting wind goes by, Dumb in a storm of mirth; Until my heart is quenched at length And I have left the land of men, Oh, let me love with all my strength Careless if I am loved again.

  Sara Teasdale

  Lying, Heart, Men

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf.

  Terri Farley

  Native American, Tongue, American Indian

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• We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does envy have such a fierce bite? Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?

  Bonnie Friedman

  Spring, Fall, Envy

  Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”

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• True love is deemed to be the most tender of our emotions, as even the blind and deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still.

  August von Platen-Hallermunde

  True Love, True Friend, Believe

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• The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Perception, World

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• ...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Odds, Vegetables, Victory

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• Deaf folk hear the fairies However soft their song; 'Tis we who lose the honey sound Amid the clamor all around That beats the whole day long.

  Rose Fyleman

  Song, Angel, Long

  Rose Fyleman, “White Magic”

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• But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Book, Angel, Giving

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• One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.

  Holly Black

  Fighting, Boys, Night

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• Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Believe, Eye

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