Deafness
partial or total inability to hear
Hearing loss,deafness,hard of hearing,anacusis,orhearing impairment(a term considered derogatory by many in thedeaf community), is a partial or total inability tohear.
Quotes
edit- Father Mulcahy:DearLordI know there must be areasonfor this. But what is it? I answered the call to do yourwork.I've devoted mylifeto it, and now how am I supposed to do it? Lord, whatgoodam I now? What good is a deafpriest?I'veprayedto you tohelpme and every day I get worse. Are you deaf too?
- Alan Alda,Burt Metcalfe,John Rappaport,Dan Wilcox&Thad Mumford,Elias Davis&David Pollock,Karen Hall,"Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen",M*A*S*H,(February 28, 1983).
- Pozzo:[suddenly furious] Have you not donetormentingme with youraccursedtime!It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he wentdumb,one day I wentblind,one day we'll godeaf,one day we wereborn,one day we shalldie,the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? [calmer] They givebirthastride of agrave,thelightgleams an instant, then it'snightonce more.
- When theimaginationsleeps,wordsare emptied of theirmeaning:adeafpopulation absent-mindedly registers thecondemnationof aman.…there is no other solution but to speak out and show theobscenityhidden under the verbal cloak.
- Albert Camus,Reflections on the Guillotine(1957); later included inResistance, Rebellion, and Death(1960).
- I figured I could get a job at a filling station somewhere, putting gas andoilin people's cars. I didn't care what kind ofjobit was, though. Just sopeopledidn't know me and I didn't know anybody. I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of thosedeaf-mutes.That way I wouldn't have to have any goddamnstupiduselessconversationswith anybody. If anybody wanted to tell me something, they'd have towriteit on a piece of paper and shove it over to me. They'd getboredas hell doing that after a while, and then I'd be through with having conversations for the rest of mylife.Everybody'd think I was just a poordeaf-mutebastard and they'd leave me alone.
- Holden Caufield]], inJ. D. Salinger,Chapter 25ofThe Catcher in the Rye(1951).
- Il ne voit que la nuit, n'entend que le silence.
- Heseesonlynight,andhearsonlysilence.
- Jacques Delille,Imagination, IV.
- Now, as a cadet, your training barely covered the importance of how to interact withAmerica's one million Deafcitizens.
- American Sign Languageis naturally big and expressive. But some officers mistake it as wild oraggressive.
- Many Deaf people can't read or write English fluently because of 'language deprivation.
- Deaf peoplereading lipsis animpossibility.There's no way. It's something hearing peopledreamtup. It's too easilymisunderstood.
- Opal Gordon,[[Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,((January 30, 2019),qtd. in Monica Hunter-Hart,“Samantha Bee's" Deaf Lives Matter "Segment Addresses A Problem That’s Often Overlooked”
- None sodeafas those that will nothear.
- Matthew Henry,Commentaries,Psalm LVIII.
- Who is sodeafas he that will nothear?
- George Herbert,Jacula Prudentum(1651).
- God:Moses, this is the Lord, thy God, commanding you to obey mylaw.Do youhearme?
Moses:Yes, I hear you, I hear you...adeafman could hear you!
God:What?!
Moses:Nothing,forgetabout it, Oh Lord! Why have youchosenme? What would you have me do for you?- History of the World: Part I(1981).
- Then theeyesof theblindshall be opened, and theearsof thedeafshall be unstopped. Then shall thelameman leap as an hart, and thetongueof thedumbsing:for in thewildernessshallwatersbreak out, and streams in thedesert.
- Isaiah35:5.
- Theproblemsofdeafnessare deeper and morecomplex,if not moreimportant,than those ofblindness.Deafness is a much worsemisfortune.For it means thelossof the most vital stimulus — thesoundof thevoicethat bringslanguage,setsthoughtsastir and keeps us in theintellectualcompany of man.
- Helen Keller,letter to Dr. James Kerr Love (1910), published inHelen Keller in Scotland: a personal record written by herself(1933), edited by James Kerr Love. Paraphrasing of this statement may have been the origin of a similar one which has become attributed to her:
- Blindnesscuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people.
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- Blindnesscuts us off from things, but deafness cuts us off from people.
- He cannot hear the skylark sing,
The music of the wild bee’s wing;
The murmur of the plaining bough;
A gentle whisper fairy low;
The noise of falling waters near—
All these have left his mournful ear.- Letitia Elizabeth Landon,Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1832(1831), 'The Deaf Schoolmaster'
- After he took him aside, away from the crowd,Jesusput his fingers into the man'sears.Then he spit and touched the man'stongue.He looked up toheavenand with a deep sigh said to him, "Ephphatha!" (which means "Be opened!" ). At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began tospeakplainly. Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. People were overwhelmed withamazement."He has done everything well," they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and themutespeak. "
- Book of Mark,7:24-30 (NIV).
- Cha vel fer erbee cha bouyr, as eshyn nagh jean clashtyn.
- Manx proverb
- Translation: None is sodeafas the one who will nothear.
- Moore (1971).The Folk-lore of the Isle of Man.S. R. Publishers. p. 259.
- Inrage,deafas thesea,hastyasfire.
- William Shakespeare,Richard II,Act I, Scene I
- Pleasureandrevenge
Haveearsmoredeafthan adders to thevoice
Of anytruedecision.- William Shakespeare,Troilus and Cressida(c. 1602), Act II, scene 2, line 171.
- O, that men'searsshould be
To counseldeaf,but not toflattery!- William Shakespeare,Timon of Athens(date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 2, line 256.
- They never wouldhear,
But turn thedeaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.- Jonathan Swift,Dingley and Brent.
- It's important to abolish the unconsciousdogmatismthat makes people think their way of looking atrealityis the onlysaneway of viewing theworld.Mygoalis to try to get people into a state of generalizedagnosticism,not agnosticism aboutGodalone, but agnosticism abouteverything.If one can only see things according to one's ownbeliefsystem, one is destined to become virtuallydeaf,dumb,andblind.