Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep… — Marcella Pixley Copy Share Image
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot Copy Share Image
think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Love gives you wings. Icarus and the Challenger both had wings, and so did my first love letter, after I folded it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There is a tragic kind of joke. You really can't keep a man down - good but often otherwise - because history's… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
“He took a deep breath. ‘To marry me,’ he said quietly. It was easier than he thought. Icarus did not fall from… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
My most recent project for The Sims Label (2011 – 2012) involved creating detailed Flash mockups exploring game play and UI designs… — Patrick Kelly Copy Share Image
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing.… — Hwang Sŏk-yŏng Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Some upstarts always try to get closer to the source of creation by ascending to the source's level. The story of Icarus… — Marcus Wohlsen Copy Share Image
“This emotion called love. It is wrapped up in time, measured by years. The more I see of humans the more complicated… — Sally Gardner Copy Share Image
Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton,… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
![“The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. In the left-hand corner is a tiny ocean the size of a palm, and there, I can barely make it out, the two legs of a man who fell headlong into the sea. This is called the Fall of…” quote by Hwang Sŏk-yŏng](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/063/hwang-s-k-y-ng-53361_day-life_the-scene-bruegel-s-landscape-with-the-f_2346650.jpg)
