24 Quotes About Deafness

Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past!

It's ironic that it was not until I lost my hearing that I finally found my voice. Sign language saved my soul.

When we still our mind and stroll through the human landscapes around us, we can see astounding images sneaking from undisclosed places, and hear roaring sounds behind unsuspected walls. If we take the time to listen to the blistering flurry of the silence and look at the inconspicuous specks in our surroundings, our world can turn into an explosion of little wonders. We realize that we finally recognize the things we have overlooked, due to our deafness and blindness. ("Fish for silence.")

Ajoelhou-se ao piano, acariciou as teclas, os pedais, a madeira, e abraçou-o, parecendo abraçar um homem gordo e grande para o qual os seus braços franzinos não chegavam. Homem amado, tantos anos doce, agora amargo de silêncio.

It is useful to be reminded of your place, and to recognise just how much you still have to learn, and how much you will never know.

And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?

Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

A bigot is a stone-deaf orator.

Misery is optional