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“I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark, that I fail to understand it. My comment is merely a pious one. Because I am easy-going I prefer not to be aggressive or hostile and therefore I say that I do not understand those matters which I ought to say I hate or despise. I have sharp hears but I pretend to be hard of hearing, finding as I do that is more elegant to feign this handicap than to admit that I have heard some vulgar sound”
Joseph Roth, The Emperor's Tomb“Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing”
but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.“Not only is love blind, it’s a little hard of hearing.”
Brian P. Cleary, You Oughta Know By Now“I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.”
Lou Ferrigno“You might have said that his look was thoughtful until you realized that he was not a thoughtful man. It was the earnest and contained look of those who are a little hard of hearing or a little stupid.”
John Cheever, Vintage Cheever“There is a whisper of light if you can hear Louder than sound of darknessyou never fear Numb sky’s muteness leaves you hard of hearingSenses wish to fly feelings disappearing”
Munia Khan“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose