I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.
Shane KoyczanRead
You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The deaf experience a unique and profound connection to silence that allows for deep introspection and understanding.
This quote by Shane Koyczan reflects the idea that individuals who are deaf have a special relationship with silence, one that goes beyond absence of sound. It suggests that silence is not merely a void for them but a canvas that they interact with in their dreams, leading to a rich inner life and unique forms of communication and thought.
Themes
DeafSilenceIntimacyDreamsCommunication
In practice
Example use cases
In a talk about inclusion, one might say, 'As Shane Koyczan beautifully puts it, the deaf have an intimacy with silence that speaks volumes.'
More from Shane Koyczan
All quotes →I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you
Shane KoyczanRead
Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.
Shane KoyczanRead
Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.
Shane KoyczanRead
Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.
Shane KoyczanRead
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.
Shane KoyczanRead
Similar quotes
We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.
Vladimir LeninRead
Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
Yann MartelRead
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
E. M. ForsterRead
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
Lord ActonRead
I do it because I love animals and I saw the reality. And I just couldn't ignore it anymore. I'm healthier for it, I'm happier for it. I can't imagine that if you're putting something in your body that is filled with fear or anxiety or pain, that that isn't somehow going to be inside of you.
Ellen DegeneresRead
Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.
Junot DiazRead