Quotes about Icarus

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Icarus should have waited for nightfall,the moon would have never let him go. — Nina Mouawad, Blue Sun: A poetry collection
Icarus should have waited for nightfall,the moon would have never let him go. — Nina Mouawad, Blue Sun: A poetry collection
I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I m — Charlotte Eriksson
I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I m — Charlotte Eriksson
Do I, then, belong to the heavens?Why, if not so, should the heavensFix me thus with their ceaseless blue stare,Luring m — Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel
Do I, then, belong to the heavens?Why, if not so, should the heavensFix me thus with their ceaseless blue stare,Luring m — Yukio Mishima, Sun and Steel
The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. I — Hwang Sok-yong, The Old Garden
The scene [Bruegel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'] is filled with a vast field, and a cow and a farmer plowing. I — Hwang Sok-yong, The Old Garden
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough w — E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World: Volume I
Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough w — E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World: Volume I
Some upstarts always try to get closer to the source of creation by ascending to the source's level. The story of Icarus — Marcus Wohlsen, Biopunk: Kitchen-Counter Scientists Hack the Software of Life
Some upstarts always try to get closer to the source of creation by ascending to the source's level. The story of Icarus — Marcus Wohlsen, Biopunk: Kitchen-Counter Scientists Hack the Software of Life
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were mad — Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were mad — Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty
I like to judge people and it was clear to me that Colin’s life has been about as exciting as a cluster headache. You ca — it’s a place to be the corporate you. The you that doesn’t really exist. We all see this corporate you and pretend that it’s a normal part of life. But we know that something isn’t quite right. We know that the real you is slowly fading away like old wallpaper. The corporate you is a myth
I like to judge people and it was clear to me that Colin’s life has been about as exciting as a cluster headache. You ca — it’s a place to be the corporate you. The you that doesn’t really exist. We all see this corporate you and pretend that it’s a normal part of life. But we know that something isn’t quite right. We know that the real you is slowly fading away like old wallpaper. The corporate you is a myth
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
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, These Broken Stars
But who names a starship the Icarus? What kind of man possess that much hubris, that he dares it to fall? — Amie Kaufman, These Broken Stars