“I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Source: PTI Me and my family know the truth: Sania http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2010-04-03/news/27587127_1_siddiquis-pakistani-cricketer-shoaib-malik-sania-mirza, The Economic Times, 3 April 2010
“I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For
#250, "Ph. D. & Sympathy" (1996), collected in Hot, Throbbing DTWOF (1997).
Dykes to Watch Out For
Tony Leung (1962) Hong Kong actor
"I Told Kar-wai I Couldn't Move, Couldn't Breathe" in TIME Asia (11 October 2000) http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/features/interviews/2000/10/11/int.tony_leung.html
James Hetfield (1963) American musician, songwriter and record producer
at St Quentin, during the videoshoot for St Anger
“In my life
Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?”
Morrissey (1959) English singer
from the 1984 song "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now"
From songs
Oksana Shachko (1987–2018) Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN
Interview with Luxemburger Wort (2015)
“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.