There's a difference between pain and suffering. Pain is in the body. Suffering is in the mind and it feels infinite. So maybe the key is to feel your pain and learn from it. And someday your suffering might disappear.

Charlie

Alex: I'm a doctor. I'm objective and I form conclusions based on what is in front of me, what I can see and touch. Not on what I wish for and what I'm hoping is true.
Joel: You believe in him. You believe he's going to get better. You're not his doctor. You're his lifeline. And right now you're all he's got.

Scott: Hey Charlie, before I go, if you really want to get back to her you gotta try harder, or you're gonna lose her. So wake up.
Charlie: I don't know how to, Scott.

You want to earn respect, you gotta start taking some risk. So bet on your winners. My triumph is your glory.

Joel

Alex: Charlie, this has been amazing. The best time of my life. But patience, my love.
Charlie: Pragmatist.
Alex: Scientist.
Charlie: Well, I'd like you to meet the optimist.
Alex: Yin to your yang.
Charlie: I'll live with that.

Nurse: Breaking heart, huh, Dr. Goran?
Joel: It wasn't personal. It's the way it's gotta be.

Alex: So who's the lucky Juliet, Romeo?
Joel: I don't kiss and tell.
Alex: You barely even kiss.

I am having an out of body experience in a tuxedo. Wake up, you dumb bastard.

Charlie

Joel: Nice office.
Dr. Kinney: Bigger than Charlie's. See? In a woman's world, size does matter.

Joel: My concern is for my patient.
Dr. Kinney: Your concern is for your reputation. You want to showboat, go somewhere else.

[to Joel] What's fun for you isn't always fun for everyone else.

Alex

Joel: Alex, what is it? Did someone say something?
Alex: I forgot about him, Joel.
Joel: About Charlie?
Alex: For a mimute, when I was laughing just now. I felt free.

Saving Hope Quotes

Joel: It's gonna be weird, isn't it? I mean you and me. You didn't invite me to the wedding so presumably you're still in love with me.
Alex: Right. I totally forgot. I like to remember the poems you wrote me, the breakfast in bed, the nurses you were banging.
Joel: Okay, we can stop right there.

This is how it happens. You leave it all behind. Everything you love. Everything you know. You belong to the hospital now. And all you can do is hope.

Charlie