Shaun King Quotes

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

The only refuge left to us was the poet's ivory tower, which we climbed, ever higher, to isolate ourselves from the mob.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to my lodge in the hills.

I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.

...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves.

Every man needs a place to go to.

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished to be found.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

The only place I can go where I'm not mobbed is my house.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

I think I survived by running away some. Running away to work.