1. Icarus - Noun
2. Icarus - Proper noun
(Greek mythology) son of Daedalus; while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned
Source: WordNetWas Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure. Alison Bechdel
I've never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don't try to fly too high,' or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings. Stanley Kubrick
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
The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130. Helen Oyeyemi
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
The dream [of flying] is as old as Icarus... I too want to give back to man the feeling of flight [with his 'Letatlin'-air-bike, 1929-1932]. This we have been robbed of by the mechanical flight of the aeroplane. We cannot feel the movement of our body in the air. Vladimir Tatlin