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
About This Quote

When you surf, you learn not to fight the power of nature, even if it gets violent. This is also the attitude Jeff Ho Surfboards is looking for. When people think of surfing, they think of fun and easy riding. To some extent it is true that the sport of surfing looks more like a child's game than it does a battle with powerful waves.

However, surfing is not just about being drowned by the waves or being drowned on your surfboard. It's about learning how to surf in an attempt to stay alive. The sport is not about winning or losing but learning how to handle power responsibly.

Source: Kafka On The Shore

Some Similar Quotes
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf. - Eve Babitz
  4. It tugs at me, filling me with the kind of seasick nostalgia that can hit you in the gut when you find an old concert ticket in your purse or an old coin machine ring you got down at the boardwalk on a day when... - Brenna Ehrlich
  5. Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness. - Raymond Chandler
More Quotes By Haruki Murakami
  1. I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but...
  2. If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
  3. Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long...
  4. Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star. It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than...
  5. I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.
Related Topics