Icarus Quotes: top 34 famous quotes about Icarus

Icarus Quotes & Sayings

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At the critical moment it is the rare few who can do what needs to be done.
-Icarus — Boone Brux

The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates — Matthew Quick

I'm drawn, Icarus to the sun. I've been burned already, and yet here I am again. — E.L. James

The corners of Cooper's mouth tucked in, which is as close as he gets to a smile. He said, "Do come in. — Tana French

You have married an Icarus;
He has flown too close to the sun — Lin-Manuel Miranda

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all. — Jess Walter

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

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 wax as an adhesive. — Randall Munroe

Icarus did not survive his fall. We can only hope Daedalus fares better. — Michael J. Martinez

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity. — Neal A. Maxwell

For all those who believed me,
and for all those who didn't.
It can't be easy hearing
things that you shouldn't. — Icarus X.

Erotica is not porn. It's explicit romance. — Tammy-Louise Wilkins

Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. — Jeremy Robert Johnson

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

The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels. — Benjamin Disraeli

Tends to rivet our attention on the Icarus companies — James C. Collins

All limits are self imposed. — Icarus

Think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings! — Anne Sexton

Courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say. — Seth

Unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning — William Carlos Williams

don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep you safe. — Marcella Pixley

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

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

Nurture the child within oneself and define a new era of global peace and understanding.'-Dalia Qutob — Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

Winter will be here soon. — Veronica Roth

I love being as bad as possible! You've got to love a bad girl. Look at 'Gone With the Wind,' Scarlett O'Hara - total bad girl, but you love her. — Katie McGrath

She became a morality tale stiff with Schadenfreude, and so many columnists made allusion to Icarus that Private Eye ran a special column. — Robert Galbraith

Get a crush on the best looking, most popular, rich boy in school. How original. — Linda Kage

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew. — Jack Gilbert

Life is cut to allow for growth ... one may vigorously put on weight before one fills it out entirely. — Rainer Maria Rilke

How oft the warmth of the sun above
Makes a pretty young girl dream of love. — Gustave Flaubert

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

Icarus burned because he flew during the day. He wanted the world to see. We fly in the darkness, where people are afraid to look. — J.J. McAvoy