Icarus Quotes

22 Icarus quotes by 21 unique authors

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is… — John C. Wright
The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality. — Louis Bleriot
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to… — E. O. Wilson
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 of… — Randall Munroe
I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that… — Eugene Ionesco
Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure — Alison Bechdel
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall… — Simon Bolivar
Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all… — Cees Nooteboom
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him… — Oriana Fallaci
I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more. — Tony Wilson
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… — George Steiner
My most recent project for The Sims Label (2011 – 2012) involved creating detailed Flash mockups exploring game play and UI designs for two potential… — Patrick Kelly
Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. — Jeremy Robert Johnson
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black… — Sylvia Plath
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Everyone forgets Icarus also flew. — Jack Gilbert
I believe that Icarus was not failing as he fell, but just coming to the end of his triumph. — Jack Gilbert
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. — Oscar Wilde
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire
A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once,… — Karen Russell
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,’ or… — Stanley Kubrick
It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble. ... If you're constantly pushing yourself higher ... the… — Oprah Winfrey

Who Wrote These Icarus Quotes

21 authors contributed a total of 22 Icarus Quotes as follows: