#deafness

One of the greatest tragedies in my life is my deafness, for it's been over twenty years now since I've been able to hear notes. When I listen to music it's as if the letters in a text were changing places with one another, rendering the words unintelligible and muddying the lines. I'd consider my old age redeemed if my hearing were to come back, for music would be the gentlest opiate, calming my fears as I move toward death. In any case, I suppose the only chance I have for that kind of miracle involves nothing short of a visit to Lourdes. ↗

— Luis Buñuel

#deafness #music #age

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

— Myron Uhlberg

#noise #rhythm #sound #love

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#gains #loses #misses #more #nonsense

The only thing I can't do is hear. I can drive, I have a life with four kids, I work on TV, I do movies, so the deafness question, is it that they want to know because, what? Not sure. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deafness #drive #four #hear #i

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#change #deafness #everything #example #except

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? ↗

— Frank Herbert

#around #cannot #deaf #deafness #fact

I actually think the deafness makes you see clearer. If you can't hear, you somehow see. ↗

— David Hockney

#clearer #deafness #hear #i #makes

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#creation #deafness #everyday #experience #familiar

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. And I'm not talking about imagining what a deaf person's whole life is like I even mean just realizing what it is like for an instant. ↗

— Richard Masur

#because #deaf #deafness #even #i

I live my life like everyone else; everyone has their own obstacles. Mine is deafness. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#else #everyone #i #life #like