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  • The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

    Musical   Noses   Pieces  
    "An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music". Book by Nat Shapiro, p. 130, 1981.
  • Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

    Loss   People   Deafness  
  • 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.

    Art   Distance   Loss  
  • 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.

    Loss   Men   Thinking  
  • We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

  • Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

    Loss   Hearing   Terrible  
    "Listen (If You Can) to Pete". www.wired.com. January 04, 2006.
  • 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.

    Mean   Loss   Men  
    Helen Adams Keller (1933). “Helen Keller in Scotland: A Personal Record Written by Herself”
  • 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 (2005). “White Rat: Short Stories”, Harlem Moon
  • If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

  • 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.

    Loss   Echoes   Air  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.123, Xist Publishing
  • 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.

    Fall   Loss   Men  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.380, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

    Loss   President   Ears  
  • 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.

    Loss   Said   Heard  
    Gertrude Stein, Joan Retallack (2008). “Gertrude Stein: Selections”, p.310, Univ of California Press
  • The District of Columbia is one gigantic ear.

    Loss   Ears   Columbia  
  • The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

    Writing   Ears   Icy  
    Robert Frost (2014). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.176, Harvard University Press
  • My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.

    Couple   Father   Loss  
    "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.
  • 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.

    Heart   Loss   Lakes  
    "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)
  • See with your ears and hear with your eyes.

    Eye   Loss   Ears  
  • But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

    Loss   Ears   Animated  
    William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.121
  • The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

    Loss   Men   Sound  
    Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.128, Penguin
  • 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.

    War   Loss   Umpires  
    "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.
  • Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

  • 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.

    Loss   People   Perfect  
  • Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet.

    Sweet   Loss   Voice  
    Alfred Lord Tennyson, “From "The Princess"”
  • The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.

    Loss   Men   Long  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2125, Delphi Classics
  • How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

    Loss   Voice   Good Woman  
    Philip Massinger, John Ferriar (1813). “The city madam. The guardian. A very woman. The bashful lover. The old law”, p.541
  • Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

    "Fictional character: Mark Anthony". "Mark Anthony’s Speech at Funeral in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare", www.cbsenext.com. October 17, 2013.
  • 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.

    Loss   Laughing   Matter  
  • 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.

    Sweet   Loss   Clouds  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: prose and verse”, p.59
  • What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

    Life   Eye   Loss  
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