Testament of Daedalus Quotes

“The fact that we did not understand each other, Icarus and I, is due to my being a most ordered man, or ultimately a most insensitive one. It is not simple. There is a kind of stupidity buried in intelligence.”
― Michael Ayrton, Testament of Daedalus

“He sought to destroy the order of the [Sun] god’s passage, because he feared the measurement of action, knowing nothing of the consequences of action.”
― Michael Ayrton, Testament of Daedalus

“I had to evolve his shape as he rose and then combine in a single image the aspiration and the disaster, the triumph and defeat and the paradox of motionlessness at high velocity.”
― Michael Ayrton, Testament of Daedalus

“To keep up one's spirits with bragging is well enough when night
comes on, but to imagine oneself responsible for the normal circle of day into night is a remarkable imaginative feat.”
― Michael Ayrton, Testament of Daedalus

“It was not I who had cast Icarus into shadow, making his shadow monstrous. I had merely stepped between him and the sun for a moment – the moment that separated him from childhood and the achievement of death.”
― Michael Ayrton, Testament of Daedalus

“I am not a god, and have never been made one, despite the abrasive of time, which sometimes grinds men into divine shapes.”
― Michael Ayrton, Testament of Daedalus

“I am a technician but I am also a legend so that I survive suspended in a solution of memory.”
― Michael Ayrton, Testament of Daedalus