Especially with the help of streaming! According to The Hollywood Reporter, the most recent Grey’s Anatomy premiere tripled its same-day viewer total, reaching 14.2 million viewers after 35 days of streaming across all platforms. Clearly, Grey’s resonates with its viewers. So much so, in fact, that Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes recently told Variety for the Show Woman of the Year issue what she hopes the legacy of the series will be. “The number of women who have become doctors because of that show is magical to me,” Rhimes said. “The number of people who’ve come to me and told me that they learned how to do CPR, or figured out that they were having a heart attack because of that show, is magical to me.” Something else that’s magical to Rhimes? Grey’s was her first foray into TV. “It was my very first television show," she explained. “It was something I made up 20 years ago and it’s still there, and still existing. It’s inspiring to me!” Relive some of the memorable moments from the show with 50 of the best Grey’s Anatomy quotes.
50 Best Grey’s Anatomy Quotes
- “We may only be together five minutes every two months, but when we do we will savor every second. We know how valuable those five minutes are.” —Ben Warren
- “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
- “The body is a slave to its impulses. But the thing that makes us human is what we can control. After the storm, after the rush, after the heat of the moment has passed, we can cool off and clean up the messes we made. We can try to let go of what was.” —Meredith Grey 4. “I’m up there waiting for you to come down the aisle and…I know you don’t want to come. If I loved you, I wouldn’t be up there waiting for you. I would be letting you go.” —Preston Burke 5. “Sometimes you have to be a shark.” —Lucy Fields 6. “Deal with your jealousy. Deal with your shortcomings. Don’t put your crap on me.” —Stephanie Edwards
- “You never think that the last time is the last time. You think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don’t.” —Meredith Grey 8. “Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we’re wired that way. Because without it, I don’t know; maybe we just wouldn’t feel real. What’s that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.” —Meredith Grey 9. “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.” —Mark Sloan 10. “You have to go back to the beginning to understand the end.” —Teddy Altman 11. “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 12. “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 13. “You were like coming up for fresh air. It’s like I was drowning and you saved me. That’s all I know.” —Derek Shepherd 14. “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 15. “Being aware of your crap and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things.” —Cristina Yang 16. “I love everything about you. Even the things I don’t like, I love. And I want you with me. I love you and I think you love me too. Do you?” —Jackson Avery 17. “Not everyone has to be happy all the time. That isn’t mental health. That’s crap.” —Meredith Grey 18. “Sometimes it’s good to be scared. It means you still have something to lose.” —Richard Webber 19. “It’s a beautiful day to save lives.” —Derek Shepherd 20. “Don’t analyze everything. Just do it.” —Alex Karev 21. “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 22. “Just because people do horrible things, it doesn’t always mean they’re horrible people.” —Izzie Stevens 23. “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 24. “I want so much for you. For both of us. So much more than this. More than being stuck with someone who feels stuck. I want you to feel free.” —Callie Torres
- “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 26. “Breakthroughs don’t happen because of the medicine. Real breakthroughs happen because someone is scared to death to stop trying.” —Derek Shepherd 27. “Don’t ever date a man who can’t handle your power."—Meredith Grey 28. “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 29. “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 30. “The expected is what keeps us steady. It’s the unexpected that changes our lives forever.” —Meredith Grey 31. “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
- “Don’t let what he wants eclipse what you need. He’s very dreamy, but he’s not the sun. You are.” —Cristina Yang 33. “The future is the home of our deepest fears and our wildest hopes."—Owen Hunt 34. “Don’t look at me like that. Like I’m damaged goods. I’m still me. I’m still here.” —Adele Webber 35. “Friends are the family we choose.” —Meredith Grey 36. “This is the way the world changes. Good people, raising babies right.” —Catherine Avery 37. “You are in a spaceship. You’re going to the moon. Enjoy the ride.” —Alex Karev 38. “For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can’t get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch, you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep you never want to come up for air. You can’t cheat your first kiss. Trust me, you don’t want to. Cause when you find that right person for a first kiss, it’s everything.” —Alex Karev 39. “The problem is we are human. We want more than to just survive. We want to love.” —Lexie Grey 40. “Grief may be a thing we all have in common but it looks different on everyone. It isn’t just death we have to grieve. It’s life, it’s loss, it’s change. And when we wonder why it has to suck so much sometimes, it has to hurt so bad.” —Meredith Grey 41. “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 42. “She’s my person. If I murdered someone, she’s the person I’d call to help me drag the corpse across the living room floor. She’s my person.”—Cristina Yang 43. “There comes a point when you have to suck it up and stop whining and start living.” —Callie Torres 44. “Please don’t give up on me. Promise. Promise me you won’t.” —Arizona Robbins 45. “Don’t let fear keep you quiet. You have a voice so use it. Speak up. Raise your hands. Shout your answers. Make yourself heard. Whatever it takes, just find your voice, and when you do, fill the damn silence.” —Meredith Grey 46. “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 47. “So you fight. Until you can’t fight anymore.” —Amelia Shepherd 48. “How are you fine? How are you just completely fine? I am ruined, OK? I am dead, I am wrecked.” —Cristina Yang 49. “Every kiss before the right kiss doesn’t count anyway.” —Derek Shepherd 50. “Promise that you’ll love me, even when you hate me.” —Meredith Grey Want more great quotes? Check out…100 Wedding and Marriage Quotes50 Thinking of You Quotes50 Friday Quotes50 Monday Motivation Quotes
