"To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death"

This quote by Marie Dressler speaks to the concept that the only real death is the death of potential. To never have tried something, to never have taken a threat, to never ever have actually put yourself out there is the only true death. It is the death of ambition, of hope, of dreams. It is the death of possibility, of potential, of what could have been. It is the death of a life unlived, of a life that could have been a lot more. It is the death of a life that might have been filled with happiness, with success, with love. To never ever have attempted is to never have lived. It is to never ever have actually experienced the low and high of life, the joys and griefs, the successes and failures. To never have actually attempted is to never ever have actually really lived.