I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I’m sure that is entirely wrong.
Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee