The thing about hearing loss is that no one can see it. Most people are so impatient; they just assume that the person with hearing loss is being rude, or slow-witted. — Marion Ross
I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. — Pete Townshend
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller
Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena. — Edward Miner Gallaudet
Deaf people can do anything, except hear. — Marlee Matlin
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. — William Osler
The deaf man cannot hear, but he composes well. — Mexican Proverbs
If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience. — Henry Blackaby
Short Hearing Loss Quotes
Men trust their ears less than their eyes. — Herodotus
Disability is the inability to see ability. — Vikas Khanna
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. — Robert Delaunay
He hears but half who hears one party only. — Aeschylus
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear. — Rumi
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. — Carl Rogers
I cut off my ears before i hear your advice and vice versa — Kendrick Lamar
Eyes see only light, ears hear only sound, but a listening heart perceives meaning. — David Steindl-Rast
A great silence is spreading over the natural world even as the sound of man is becoming deafening. — Bernie Krause
Hearing Loss Image Quotes
A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear.
Can't Hear Quotes
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. — Unknown Author
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality. — Eazy-E
You can't just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will. — Nouman Ali Khan
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme. — Dorothy Parker
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. — J. K. Rowling
That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice. — Bill Klem
How amazing is it to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head.
Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me. — Maria Callas
If your first objective in the negotiation, instead of making your argument, is to hear the other side out, that's the only way you can quiet the voice in the other guy's mind. But most people don't do that. — Chris Voss
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices — Virginia Woolf
Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something. — Maya Angelou
Hearing Aids Quotes
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. — Alphonsus Liguori
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I've never felt better in my life. — Ronald Reagan
We have hearing aids in order to fix our ears. We have lasik surgery in order to fix our eyes. People ... you can't fix stupid! — Ron White
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God. — Christina Aguilera
I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. — Marlee Matlin
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen. — John Millington Synge
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice. — Marlee Matlin
One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife. — Groucho Marx
If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are. — Marlee Matlin
Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once! — Stephen Colbert
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. — Walter Lippmann
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain
I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world. — Oliver Sacks
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. — Albert Bandura
I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. — Bob Riley
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. — Wilfred Burchett
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears. — Mark Antony
I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read. — Gayl Jones
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. — Tommy Smothers
More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone. — Paula McLain
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus- the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir, and keeps us in the intellectual company of man. — Helen Keller
Princes have big ears which hear far and near. — Elizabeth I
Listening is not merely not talking...it means taking a vigorous human interest in what is being told to us. — Andrew Miller
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure. — George Kennedy
I think a lot of our problems are because people don't listen to our children. It is not always easy. They're not always so brilliant that you want to spend hours with them. But it is very important to listen to them. — Barbara Bush
Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. — Pete Townshend
At first, it feels as if she has vanished forever, and all traces are destroyed. But later, when the pain of loss doesn't overwhelm all your other feelings, every time you think of her, or hear her voice in your head, or remember a happy time together, you realize she's still a part of you and will never be totally gone. — Maria V. Snyder
But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Rule number one is, make sure that you face the person with hearing loss when you are speaking to them. — Marion Ross
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help. — Marion Ross
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. — Veronica Roth
Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear. — Karl Kraus
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Are you having problems hearing? If so, those around you already know it. Hearing loss is no laughing matter, so don't be a punchline. — Leslie Nielsen
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly. — Max Lucado
I hear a thunder in the distance; see a vision of the cross. I feel the pain that was given on a sad day of loss. Only He holds the key: a light to free me from my burden and grant me life eternally. — Scott Stapp
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. — William Shakespeare
See with your ears and hear with your eyes. — Ken Kesey
Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses. — Philip Massinger
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse. — William Shakespeare
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money gained on Sabbath-day is a loss, I dare to say. No blessing can come with that which comes to us, on the devil's back, by our willful disobedience of God's law. The loss of health by neglect of rest, and the loss of soul by neglect of hearing the gospel, soon turn all seeming profit into real loss. — Charles Spurgeon
Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen. — Bella Bathurst
But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear. — William Cowper
There's the Ronald Reagan cupped-ear gambit. The press is deliberately and systematically kept away from him. All you hear is a bunch of monkeys screaming at him when they could easily have been brought right up and the president could have stood and talked in a conversational tone. — John Chancellor
When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime. — W. S. Gilbert
One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say. — Gertrude Stein
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds. — Henry David Thoreau
When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn. — Henry David Thoreau
We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep. — Henry David Thoreau
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core. — William Butler Yeats
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
And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound. — William Shakespeare
Within a bony labrinthean cave, Reached by the pulse of the aerial wave, This sibyl, sweet, and Mystic Sense is found, Muse, that presides o'er all the Powers of Sound. — Abraham Coles
The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear. — Ronald Reagan
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