The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. . . . People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say --or their beliefs --or sex.
Source: Jimmy Porter, in Look Back in Anger, act 3, sc. 1.
-- John Osborne, (Dec 12 1929-1994), English playwright; He revolutionized the British drama by spearheading the Angry Young Men movement with his landmark play Look Back in Anger, 1956.