Surfing Quotes

“You never really know what's coming. A small wave, or maybe a big one. All you can really do is hope that when it comes, you can surf over it, instead of drown in its monstrosity.”
― Alysha Speer

“Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.”
― Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

“It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.”
― Eve Babitz, Sex and Rage

“Surfing's a more profound kind of sport than it looks. When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Zane," she moaned. "Please touch me."
"I will. I'm going to touch every inch of you until I know what makes you sigh and what makes you giggle and what makes you beg me to never stop. I'm going to make you shudder and scream so that long after tonight you'll remember the feel of my hands and exactly where they were on your body."
"I'm going to die if you don't get on with it.”
― Robin Bielman, Keeping Mr. Right Now

“If you're having a bad day, catch a wave.”
― Frosty Hesson

“Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life.
The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan.
The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.”
― Jaimal Yogis, Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

“I gulped. But, I mean, everyone bends the truth sometimes to be friendly. What's really weird is that I'm the only one who seems to get in trouble for it. Anyway, what could possibly go wrong this time?”
― Sue Wyshynski, Poser

“For surfers, being tubed is like being reborn.”
― Robert Black

“Becoming one with the wave is about as authentic and personally harmonizing an experience as you can get in these phony days of Auto-Tune.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Do you ever wish you could hear?"
"I can hear. I just listen differently than you."
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― Kerry O'Malley Cerra, Hear Me

“No one remembers the wipe-outs. They don’t! People remember the triumphs! They’ll remember all the times you caught that wave and you rode it into shore.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Each wave is the ocean pushing us back to land, commanding us to go, be mortal gain. But every time we paddle back out we're saying, 'Not yet, please. Not just yet.”
― Amy Mason Doan, The California Dreamers

“but I guess I’ve been avoiding her. I haven’t had “the energy to be ‘on’ and cheerful; nor do I want to dissolve into sobs. I guess this is how people slowly turn into recluses.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Of course, I couldn’t let her go into the cave alone. Thanks to all those dreams and the dragon coming to see me, to warn me, in the middle of the night, I was 100% positive that I was the new tamer. I was the only person alive who could tell the dragon not to eat my stupidly curious mother.”
― D.G. Driver, Dragon Surf

“As one might say about sex, even bad bodysurfing is good bodysurfing.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“Don't look for happiness, create it.”
― Penny Dodson, Santa Goes Surfing

“Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants.”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

“I enjoy watching the World Surf League coverage. But perhaps it should be more accurately named the Freemason Surf League. It is certainly a good way to observe an exhibition of Freemason hand signals by the live presenters.”
― Jack Freestone

“Pipeline's for the fucking girls!”
― Caitlin Simmers

“Every board rides a different wave, and every wave tells a different story!”
― Mike Del Ninno, Boogie Board Man: Eight Sessions With Thomas Hugh Morey

“Firstly, in lunar gravity, the avalanche progressed much more slowly than such an event would on earth. Secondly, moonrakers were bottom-heavy beasts. It would take quite a lot to flip one over. So he held his breath as he surfed the wave. Who was the big kahuna now?”
― Daniel Thorman, The Zodiac Quest: A LitRPG Adventure

“I don’t know when cooking became so daunting. It kind of crept up on me. Just the thought overwhelms me. How do people do that every night?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“Do I want to flirt back? How do I flirt back? How does that go again? I try to reach inside myself for my flirting moves. But I’ve lost it. I feel empty inside. I don’t have a line.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“I’ll bug you about this. I won’t let it go. Because that’s what you do when you care about someone.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“but if I can’t trust him to go for coffee with her, then that says something about me.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

“You guys are late,” Hud said. “Nina’s probably waiting for us.”
“Jay had to run some secret operation,” Kit said.
“Kit had to change her clothes four times,” Jay offered.
“Once. I changed my clothes once.”
“What secret operation?” Hud asked as Jay looked at passing traffic and then gunned it into the right lane.
“It’s nothing,” Jay said. “Lay off.” And that’s when everyone knew it was a woman.
Hud felt his shoulders loosen. If Jay was interested in someone new, that would soften the blow. “Consider me officially laying off then,” he said, both hands up in surrender.
“Yeah,” Kit said. “Like anyone gives a shit anyway.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“The first wave in a gorgeous set came in and Jay was primed for it. He got himself into position and popped up on his board, and then out of nowhere, Kit dropped in, cut him off, and stole his wave.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“He yearned for water like it was his lover.”
― David Davis, Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku

“As someone who prefers his internal organs to remain on the inside, however, I found it harder to toe the party line. The odds of being bitten by a shark are almost zero. But for a few unlucky people, the crucial part of that sentence is "almost." In much the way my grandfather once ate several salmon-flavored dog biscuits thinking they were gourmet crackers, sharks occasionally--but very memorably--confuse people for seals. Surfers, with seal-shaped boards and dark wetsuits, are particularly susceptible to such mixups.”
― David Litt, It's Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground