“The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.”
“What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.”
“There’s much protest, but it falls on deaf ears.”
“But who ever heeds the voice of reason when love whispers, softly persuasive, in the other ear?”
“Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.”
“Do deaf schizophrenics hear voices in sign language?”