Grey’s Anatomy Quotes

Meredith Grey (narration): There’s a saying we hear a lot around hospitals… that goes like this… “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” It didn’t work. But I doubt the person who coined it ever went through major surgery. It didn’t work. Or maybe they didn’t mean physical pain. Maybe they meant the other kind… the worse kind. Maybe they meant the kind of searing, seething, boiling pain that tells you you’re a failure and a fraud. “Suffering is optional.” That person didn’t know what the f… they were talking about.

Meredith Grey (narration): The painful irony for doctors is that we often have to make you sicker in order to heal you. If a bone is healed unevenly, we have to re-break it. If a scar is too thick, we have to scrape it off and create a new wound. We break you down to re-build you. We go to medical school because we want to learn how to fix what’s broken. But we quickly learn that we often have to make things worse before we can make them better. It’s risky and it’s frightening for surgeons and for patients, but usually, it’s worth it. You get a second chance at life, and we get to be the architects of your second chance. It’s win-win. When it works.

Meredith Grey (narration): Nobody wakes up thinking, “My world will explode today.” “My world will change.” Nobody thinks that. But, sometimes, it happens. Sometimes, we wake up, we face our fears… We take them by the hand. And we stand there, waiting… hoping, ready… for anything.