Grey's Anatomy

45 Quotes That Further Prove Why Grey's Is The Best Show On Television

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August 24, 2016
“You're letting her think you're emotionally available. You're letting her think she has a chance. And there is nothing worse in the world than thinking you have a chance when you really don't.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Enough is Enough
Tagged: False Hope, Chance, Leading On, emotionally available
“You didn't love her! You just didn't want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she was good for your ego. Or, or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn't love her, because you don't destroy the person that you love!”
— Dr. Callie Torres, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 4: The Heart of the Matter
Tagged: Love, Hurting Somone, Fake Love, Illusions of Love
“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. But there are some lines... that are way too dangerous to cross.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: The First Cut is the Deepest
Tagged: Decisions, boundaries, danger, Crossing Lines
“The thing about addiction is it never ends well, because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt. Still, they say you don't kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you're there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 4: Love/Addiction
Tagged: Addiction, Hitting Bottom, Getting High, Letting Go
“Change…We don’t like it, we fear it. But we can’t stop it from coming. We either adapt to change, or we get left behind. It hurts to grow. Anybody who tells you it doesn’t, is lying. But here’s the truth: Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes, change is good. Sometimes, change is… everything.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 4: A Change Is Gonna Come
Tagged: Change, Sudden Fear, Adaptability, Growth
“People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of all of their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them, don’t.

Some wounds, we carry with us everywhere… and though the cut is long gone, the pain still lingers.

What’s worse? New wounds, which are so horribly painful, or old wounds, which should have healed years ago, and never did? Maybe our old wounds teach us something. They remind us where we’ve been, and what we’ve overcome. They teach us lessons about what to avoid in the future. That’s what we like to think.

But that’s not the way it is, is it? Some things we just have to learn over and over and over… again.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 3: Scars and Souvenirs
Tagged: Scars, wounds, emotional pain, Heartache, Healing
“At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed of. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important that it’s happy ever after just that it’s happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon people will surprise you. And once and a while people may even take your breath away.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 1: Save Me
Tagged: Faith, fairy tales, Surprises, Dreams, Happiness
“Maybe we’re not supposed to be happy, maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is, appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for the things we’ll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 2: Thanks for the Memories
Tagged: Gratitude, Celebration, Appreciation, Joy, Thankfulness
“Lexie: [voiceover] Grief may be a thing we all have in common, but it looks different on everyone.
Mark: It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life. It’s loss. It’s change.
Alex: And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, has to hurt so bad. The thing we gotta try to remember is that it can turn on a dime.”
— Krista Vernoff, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 4: Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Loss, Grief, Death, Mourning
“They say death is hardest on the living. It’s tough to actually say goodbye. Sometimes it’s impossible. You never really stop feeling the loss. It’s what makes things so bitter sweet. We leave little bits of ourselves behind, little reminders. A lifetime of memories, photos, trinkets. Things to remember us by even when were gone.”
— Dr. Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy, Season 9: Going Going Gone
Tagged: Death, Pain, Loss, goodbye, Memories, Trinkets, Souvenirs
“Oh, screw beautiful. I'm brilliant. If you want to appease me, compliment my brain.”
— Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy, Season 7: This is How We Do it
Tagged: Beautiful, Brilliant, compliments, Brain
“If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, stop accepting crap and demand something more.”
— Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 4: Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Self-Esteem, Assertiveness, Crappy, Bad Luck
“The first time I kissed my wife, she wasn't my wife then, she was just this girl in a bar. But when we kissed, it was like, I gotta tell you, it was like I'd never kissed any other woman before. It was like my first kiss. The right kiss.”
— Dr. Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy, Season 11: How to Save a Life
Tagged: first kiss, Kissing, romance
“We’ve all done things we weren’t proud of. I understand that. I know nobody’s perfect, but how do you live with it? How do you get up every morning knowing you could have done better, that you should have done better? Is being sorry enough? Can an apology actually heal our wounds? Ease our pain? Can it undo the hurt that we’ve caused?”
— Dr. Callie Torres, Grey's Anatomy, Season 10: Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
Tagged: Regret, Shame, Apologies, Perfection
“Knowing is better than wondering. Waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beats the hell out of never trying.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Greys quotes
“If there's an upside to free-falling, it's the chance you give your friends to catch you.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Friends, Grey's Quotes, Grey's Anatomy
“It turns out sometimes you have to do the wrong thing. Sometimes you have to make a big mistake to figure out how to make things right. Mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who we really are.”
— Denny Duquette, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Quotes, Grey's Anatomy
“Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here and don't give a damn about what anyone thinks.”
— Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy
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“You never know the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest. The days you think are going to be the big ones, they are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. It's the regular days, the ones that start out normal. Those are the days that end up being the biggest.”
— Izzie Stevens, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Quotes
“We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Quotes
“Did you say it? 'I love you.' 'I don't ever want to live without you.' 'You changed my life.' Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then look around; Drink it in 'cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Greys quotes
“The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there are the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight not to give in. To live or die. Live or die. That's the important choice. And it's not always in our hands.”
— Derek Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Quotes
“Just when we think we figured things out, the universe throws us a curveball. So, we have to improvise. We find happiness in unexpected places. We find ourselves back to the things that matter the most. The universe is funny that way. Sometimes it just has a way of making sure we wind up exactly where we belong.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Greys quotes, Grey's Anatomy
“If you love someone, you tell them. Even if you're scared that it's not the right thing. Even if you're scared that it'll cause problems. Even if you're scared that it will burn your life to the ground, you say it, and you say it loud and you go from there.”
— Dr. Mark Sloan, Grey's Anatomy
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“Don't let what he wants eclipse what you need. He's very dreamy, but he's not the sun. You are!”
— Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy
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“If you aren't willing to keep looking for light in the darkest of places without stopping, even when it seems impossible, you will never succeed.”
— Amelia Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy
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“We lose those battles as often as we succeed. The key, though, win or lose, is to never fail. And the only way to fail is not to fight. So fight until you can't fight anymore. Never let go. Never give up. Never run. Never surrender. Fight the good fight, you fight even when it seems inevitable you're about to go down swinging.”
— Amelia Shepherd, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Quotes
“You can build a house out of anything. Make it as strong as you want. But a home, a home is more fragile than that. A home is made of the people you fill it with. And people can be broken, sure, but any surgeon knows, what's broken can be mended. What's hurt can be healed. That no matter how dark it gets the sun's going to rise again.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Quotes
“I can't think of a single reason why I should be a surgeon, but I can think of a thousand reasons why I should quit. They make it hard on purpose... there are lives in our hands. There comes a moment when it's more than just a game, and you either take that step forward or turn around and walk away. I could quit but here's the thing, I love the playing field.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
Tagged: Greys quotes, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Quotes
“You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.”
— Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
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