Quote by Christopher Marlowe

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

— Anonymous

“...virtue shall be bound into the hair of thy forelock... I have given thee the power of flight without wings.”

— The Koran

“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never serve to…

— Petrarch

“They will not struggle energetically against him, sometimes they will even applaud him; but they do not follow him. To his vehemence they secretly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“i soared with you high; dangerously high above the ground. you held me tight, smothered my soul, and burned my wings down.”

— Hend Suhail

“He had forgotten how to soar upon the wings of his soul...”

— Ilchi Lee

“He grew restless with Connemara and its bleak possibilities, its blasted bogscape and lunar rockiness, the grey desolation of everything around him, the rainy,…

— Joseph O'Connor

“These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's wing Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, Who else would soar above the view of men And…

— William Shakespeare

“His thinking was a dusk of doubt and selfmistrust lit up at moments by the lightnings of intuition, but lightnings of so clear a…

— James Joyce

“The terrible agony that had been unleashed here seemed to remain coiled in the air, poised, ready to snatch at his sanity. In self-defense,…

— Steven Erikson

“If only I had feathered wings, that could bend and curve and reach, beyond imagined dreams, unhindered by the weight of earth.”

— Craig Froman

...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And…

— William Shakespeare