May thy knife chip and shatter. - Frank Herbert

"A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!"
It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!"
He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers."

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides