All human activities are equivalent ... and ... all are on principle doomed to failure.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

When people work beyond their destiny, all they do fails.

Nothing that rests on contradictions shall succeed or last in the long run; all that involves a contradiction is fatally destined, sooner or later, to disintegrate and disappear.

Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish…

But, for everything,
there is an end, someday, inevitably.

Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop.

A good rule of thumb for a lot of things in life is that everything that can break will eventually break. So if many things rely on one thing working, and that thing breaks, you are counting the days to catastrophe. That’s a single point of failure.

Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

If you do everything for one reason, then all you have done will become meaningless when the reason does.

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

All things to their decline do tend,
All falls, expires, comes to its end:
Man dies, iron rusts, wood rots away,
Tower sinks, wall falls, rose has its day.
Horse stumbles, cloth wears out apace,
No work of hands leaves lasting trace.

All that is made perfect by progress perishes also by progress.

Are we all destined to die as failures? Just