Icarus Mythology Quotes & Sayings

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

All limits are self imposed. — Icarus

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

Tragedy is born of myth, not morality. Prometheus and Icarus are tragic heroes. Yet none of the myths in which they appear has anything to do with moral dilemmas. Nor have the greatest Greek tragedies.

If Euripides is the most tragic of the Greek playwrights, it is not because he deals with moral conflicts but because he understood that reason cannot be the guide of life. — John N. Gray