24 Quotes About Deafness

We all have our handicaps. You're not mine.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because I am bound to be misunderstood; for me there can be no relaxation with my fellow-men, no refined conversations, no mutual exchange of ideas, I must live alone like someone who has been banished.

I'm always trying to figure out what's really going on. Always having to fill in the gaps, but never getting all the details. It's like trying to do a jigsaw when I don't even know what the picture is, and I'm missing one of the vital middle pieces.

If deafness is like polio Then what started it? The hearing or the people who hate the deaf.

Apparently, my first book of poetry has been read, faster than 14 years but the silent listener dreamed for longer than 21 years.

The first woman I approached tried to tell me she wasn't interested. I pretended that my deafness prevented me from hearing her refusals.