Deaf Quotes

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. (Mark Twain)
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. View quote
Walter Lippmann
Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much. View quote
Luis Buñuel
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. View quote
Matthew Henry
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over animation. One can either see or be seen. View quote
John Updike
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. View quote
Ben Jonson
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. (Oscar Wilde)
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? View quote
Frank Herbert
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. View quote
Milan Kundera
At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. View quote
Marlee Matlin
I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf. View quote
Camryn Manheim
Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years. View quote
Robert Toombs
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Dwelling upon the self too much produces terrible fatigue. A man in that position is deaf and blind to everything else. The fatigue itself makes him cease to see the marvels all around. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool. Let the Lord of Chaos rule. (Robert Jordan)
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. View quote
David Ogilvy
And, anyway, no matter how much you may behave like the deaf adder of Scripture which, as you are doubtless aware, the more one piped, the less it danced, or words to that effect, I shall carry on as planned. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
You can knock on a deaf man's door forever. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the pit like the rest. Hear my voice raised in petition as I cry to you for help, as I raise my hands, my Lord, toward your holy of holies. View quote
Nicholas Sparks