He took a deep breath. ‘To marry me,’ he said quietly. It…

“unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning”

— William Carlos Williams

Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus -…

— Cees Nooteboom

Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of…

— Dwight Longenecker

“Icarus! It’s not as if I have forgotten all names. I remember Icarus. He flew too close to the sun. In the stories, though,…

— Neil Gaiman

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

— Oprah Winfrey

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

“Then there were those famous wings. Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design…

— Alison Bechdel

“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”

— Anonymous

“Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.”

— Nina Mouawad

“But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall?”

— Amie Kaufman

“I had not fooled myself with false hope. I was a goddess, and he a mortal, and both of us were imprisoned. But I…

— Madeline Miller

“I'm drawn, Icarus to the sun. I've been burned already, and yet here I am again.”

— E.L. James

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations…

— Randall Munroe

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

— Seth Godin

The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.

— Louis Bleriot