Grey’s Anatomy is an American medical drama television series that premiered on March 27, 2005, on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) as a mid-season replacement. The fictional series focuses on the lives of surgical interns, residents, and attending doctors, as they develop into seasoned doctors while trying to maintain personal lives and relationships. Grey’s Anatomy quotes about death, love, medicine will motivate you in life.
Best Grey’s Anatomy Quotes
- “Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. He’s very dreamy, but he’s not the sun. You are.” – Cristina Yang
- “If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, stop accepting crap and demand something more.” – Cristina Yang
- “I love you, in a really really big, pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me.” – Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy quotes about love
- “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
- “And if you can’t do it, 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
- “I want to marry you. I want to have kids with you. I want to build us a house. I want to settle down and grow old with you. I want to die when I’m 110 years old in your arms. I don’t want 48 uninterrupted hours. I want a lifetime.” – Derek Shepherd
- “Shut up. Dance it out.” – Cristina Yang
- “Picture the life you dreamed of living. Are you living the life you envisioned for yourself? Are you who you wanted to be when you grew up?” – Meredith Grey
- “You can have the worst crap in the world happen to you and you can get over it. All you gotta do is survive.” – Alex Karev
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“Sometimes you have to be a shark.” – Lucy Fields
- “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.” – Meredith Grey
- “Oh screw beautiful! I’m brilliant! If you want to appease me, compliment my brain.” – Cristina Yang
- “You are my person. You will always be my person.” – Cristina Yang
- “Deal with your jealousy. Deal with your shortcomings. Don’t put your crap on me.” – Stephanie Edwards
- “Each of you comes here today hopeful. Wanting in on the game. A month ago you were in med school being taught by doctors. Today, you are the doctors. The seven years you spend here as surgical residents will be the best and worst of your life. You will be pushed to the breaking point. Look around you. Say hello to your competition. Eight of you will switch to an easier specialty. Five of you will crack under the pressure and two of you will be asked to leave. This is your starting line. This is your arena. How well you play? That’s up to you.” – Richard Webber
- “It’s a beautiful day to save lives.” – Derek Shepherd
- “There’s an end to every storm. Once all the trees have been uprooted. Once all the houses have been ripped apart. The wind will hush, the clouds will part, the rain will stop, the sky will clear in an instant. But only then, in those quiet moments after the storm, do we learn who was strong enough to survive it.” – Meredith Grey
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“You don’t give them something to run from. You give them someone to run to.” – Richard Webber
- “You’re my person.” – Cristina Yang
- “All you can do is be brave enough to get out there. You fought. You loved. You lost. Walk tall.” – Mark Sloan
- “You can’t be an ass to me all day and then expect me to give you respect.” – Lexie Grey
- “Not all wounds are superficial. Most wounds run deeper than we can imagine. You can’t see them with the naked eye. And then, there are the wounds that take us by surprise. The trick with any kind of wound or disease is to dig down and find the real source of the injury. And once you’ve found it … try like hell to heal that sucker.” – Meredith Grey
- “Please, don’t chase me anymore, unless you’re ready to catch me.” – Callie Torres
- “Promise that you’ll love me, even when you hate me.” – Meredith Grey
- “You were like coming up for fresh air. It’s like I was drowning and you saved me.” – Derek Shepherd
- “The only time I don’t feel like a ghost is when you look at me because when you look at me, you see me. You see me. This is me.” – Owen Hunt
- “Yes, horrible things do happen. Happiness, in the face of all of that, that’s not the goal. Feeling horrible, and knowing that you’re not gonna die from those feelings, that’s the point.” – Katherine Wyatt
- “Friends are the family we choose.” – Meredith Grey
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“Don’t ever date a man who can’t handle your power.” – Meredith Grey
- “Please don’t give up on me. Promise. Promise me you won’t.” – Arizona Robbins
- “Intimacy is a four-letter syllable for- here’s my heart and soul, please grind them into a hamburger and enjoy. It’s both desired and feared. Difficult to live with, impossible to live without” – Meredith Grey
- “I am woman. Hear me roar.” – Miranda Bailey
- “Everybody wants their place in history. No one wants to be the astronaut that nobody remembers.” – Meredith
- “It’s good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose.” – Richard Webber
- “Bad things happen, but you have to move past it. Leave it behind. The sooner, the better. Or it’ll eat away at you and stop you from moving forward.” – Miranda Bailey
- “This is your starting line. This is your arena. How well you play? That’s up to you.” – Richard Webber
- “Breakthroughs don’t happen because of the medicine. Real breakthroughs happen because someone is scared to death to stop trying.” – Derek Shepherd, Grey’s Anatomy quotes about death and medicine
- “You have to go back to the beginning to understand the end.” – Teddy Altman
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“Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things” – Cristina Yang
- “As human beings, sometimes it’s better to stay in the dark, because in the dark there may be fear, but there is also hope.” – Meredith Grey
- “We don’t get unlimited chances to have the things that we want, and this I know. Nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could have changed your life.” – Addison Montgomery
- “I’m a superstar. A superstar with a scalpel.” – Callie Torres
- “Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. Live or die. Hero or coward. Fight or give in. I’ll say it again to make sure you hear me. The human life is made up of choices. Live or die. That’s the important choice. And it’s not always in our hands.” – Derek Shepherd
- “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
- “It’ll hurt every time you think of her. But over time, it will hurt less and less. And eventually you’ll remember her and it will only hurt a little.” – Cristina Yang
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“This is the way the world changes. Good people, raising babies right” – Catherine Avery
- “It doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us home, it changes our lives. Trauma messes everybody up. But maybe that’s the point. All the pain and the fear and the crap. Maybe going through all that is what keeps us moving forward. It’s what pushes us. Maybe we have to get a little messed up before we can step up.” – Alex Karev
- “Some days, the whole world seems upside down. And then somehow, and probably, when you least expect it, the world gets right again.” – Meredith Grey
- “So you fight. Until you can’t fight anymore.” – Amelia Shepherd
- “Why do we even try when the barriers are so high and the odds are so low? Why don’t we just pack it in and go home?” – Amelia Shepherd
- “Don’t analyze everything. Just do it.” – Alex Karev
- “There comes a point when you have to suck it up and stop whining and start living” – Callie Torres
