Failure Quote by Alison Bechdel

“8:37 Instead of narrative build-up, what if we have Icarus crawling right into the water - wings on, indifferent to flight - skipping past…

— Thalia Field

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

— Amie Kaufman

“And, Mr. Knightley, forget my theory about Icarus. If you don't sail high, with the risk of crashing and burning, do you really live?…

— Katherine Reay

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

— William Carlos Williams

“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…

— Hwang Sŏk-yŏng

“She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn't cause…

— Zack Love

“He took a deep breath. ‘To marry me,’ he said quietly. It was easier than he thought. Icarus did not fall from the sky;…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“What good are wings without the courage to fly?”

— Atticus Poetry

“To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph" Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on, testing that strange little tug at his shoulder…

— Anne Sexton

“I believe that if someone always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.”

— Gustav Flaubert

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’…

— Stanley Kubrick

“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”

— Simone de Beauvoir