“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

“There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.”

“I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.”

“He would be a consul no doubt by and by, at some foreign port, of the language of which he was ignorant; though if ignorance of language were a qualification he might have been a consul at home.”

“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”

“I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.”