Picnic Quotes

“What good is it to be pretty?"

"Well. . . pretty things are rare in this life."

"But what good are they?"

"Well . . . pretty things . . . like flowers and sunsets
and rubies and pretty girls, too . . . they're like billboards telling us that life is good.”
― William Inge, Picnic

“Oh, Mom, what can you do with the love you feel? Where is there you can take it?”
― William Inge, Picnic

“You gotta remember, men have feelings, too—same as
women.”
― William Inge, Picnic

“It's like the daylight didn't want to end, isn't it? . . . Like the daytime was gonna put up a big scrap and maybe sit the world on fire . . . to keep night-time from creepin' on.”
― William Inge, Picnic

“It just seems that when I'm looking in the mirror that's
the only way I can prove to myself I'm alive. . . Lots of the time I wonder if I really exist.”
― William Inge, Picnic

“People we love are always pretty, but people who're
pretty to begin with, everybody loves them.”
― William Inge, Picnic

“I'm only eighteen."

"And next summer you'll be nineteen, and then twenty, and then twenty-one, and then forty.”
― William Inge, Picnic

“Some day I'm going to get on that train and I'm going to go to New York."

"That train only goes as far as Tulsa.”
― William Inge, Picnic

“I don't care if you're real or not. You're the most beautiful thing I ever saw.”
― William Inge, Picnic