What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.
Helen KellerRead
If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Hearing can connect us with others, alleviating feelings of loneliness.
In this quote, Helen Keller emphasizes the profound importance of hearing as a sense that can foster connections with others. She suggests that without the ability to hear, one might feel isolated and alone, highlighting the role of auditory experiences in forming relationships and understanding the world around us.
Themes
HearingLonelinessConnectionSensesCommunication
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the importance of community support.
More from Helen Keller
All quotes βWhat could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
Helen KellerRead
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
Helen KellerRead
Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction. Be heroes in an army of construction.
Helen KellerRead
Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Helen KellerRead
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen KellerRead
Similar quotes
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking after the large vivarium where they happily passed their days was given to first-year students, on the basis that if they got things wrong there wouldn't be too much education wasted.
Terry PratchettRead
You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.
Dale CarnegieRead
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
Alexis CarrelRead
You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
Julia RobertsRead
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
Margaret AtwoodRead
There is nothing foolish about hope.
N.K. JemisinRead