Peter Morgan Quotes

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

It's crazy that I look at 2019 as one of my best career years of my life. If you put it all into bullet points of all the things I did, you'd be like, 'Wow that's an amazing year,' but mentally, I just feel the lowest I've ever felt.

I try to focus on using my energy to change things, but there are times when I feel so bad.

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'

People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

I have a hard time being happy, and I think a lot of creative people suffer with that when life gets real happy.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

Every person my size has a different life, a different history. Different ways of dealing with it. Just because I'm seemingly O.K. with it, I can't preach how to be O.K. with it. I don't think I still am O.K. with it. There's days when I'm not.

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

I've had my share of dark days of the soul. I try not to focus on it too much so it doesn't get to me.

If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.