All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
'Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent—
That is my proper element.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.