Altars Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled…

— Sylvia Plath

God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou…

— Max Anders

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

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

— E.L. James

“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

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

— Amie Kaufman

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

— Nina Mouawad

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

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Jeremy Robert Johnson

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

— Oprah Winfrey

“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