Sensory Impairment Quotes

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'

A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple.

I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.

… a blind man talking to a group of deaf people

About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.

The late Président de Montesquieu told me that he knew how to be blind--he had been so for such a long time--but I swear that I do not know how to be deaf: I cannot get used to it, and I am as humiliated and distressed by it today as I was during the first week. No philosophy in the world can palliate deafness.

A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people have different types of disabilities, and you cannot put a code that applies to towards everyone - generally, they can be guidelines, but in the long run, interior designers and architects need more education on the subject.

To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

If blind people wear sunglasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs?

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

No mother, no father, no Sight.

Say what you want about the deaf.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

My! ain't men blinder'n moles?

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

I've gotten really hot since you went blind.

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?