Deaf Quotes - Page 4

• I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Thinking, Dancing, Remember

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• Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

  William Osler

  Half, Blind, Feels

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.99, ACP Press

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• Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

  Francis Quarles

  Heart, Men, Heaven

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.96

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• Relationship and connectedness are the pre-condition for change. Every meeting, every process, every training program has to get people connected first. Otherwise the content falls on deaf ears. So small groups are an essential building block to any future you want to create.

  Peter Block

  Block, Fall, Knowledge

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• The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Rain, Wind, Mad

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe: Stories & Poems”, p.184, Rockport Pub

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• Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

  Margaret Atwood

  World

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• There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken, that nothing short of a miraculous touch of re-creation can make them at death perfect beings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Perfect, Dumb

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Faith is not a soft option offered to people who need a crutch to get through the rest of their lives. Faith is the supernatural activity of God whereby He opens blind eyes, unstops deaf ears, and a man or a woman says- “I see it now. I get it now. I am going to trust in God. I am going to trust in Jesus.

  Alistair Begg

  Jesus, Eye, Men

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• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Men, Play, Musician

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Art, Giving Up, Couple

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• Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Eye, Darkness, Colour

  Orhan Pamuk (2006). “My Name Is Red”, p.186, Vintage

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• Say what you want about the deaf.

  Jimmy Carr

  Nihilism, Want, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  Jimmy Carr, Lucy Greeves (2006). “Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?”, p.128, Penguin

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• I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

  Ken Kesey

  Night, Years, Fishing

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• If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Growing Up, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The fact that I'm virtually deaf. Any woman who's going to date a rock musician has to be prepared to repeat herself every 10 seconds. My wife asks me where we should go for dinner and it sounds like the schoolteacher from Charlie Brown.

  Dave Grohl

  Wife, Musician, Rock Music

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• Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare (1821). “Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton”, p.36

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• The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

  Alan Lightman

  Needs, Speech, Speak

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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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• I'm pretty positive that if I started singing songs that were for my fame, the God would probably make me tone deaf again. I know why He gave me that voice. I know why He gave me my ears.

  Dominic Balli

  Song, Voice, Singing

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Doors, Forever

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• In the deaf community, in order to play a role of someone with a hearing loss... you have to have hearing loss.

  Katie Leclerc

  Loss, Order, Play

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• He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Husband, Wife, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.117

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• I see thou art implacable, more deaf
  To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas
  Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore:
  Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages
  Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

  John Milton

  Art, Hate, Wind

  John Milton, Edward Phillips (1834). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.260

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• If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

  Michael Palin

  Atheist, Men, Religion

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