Here's another reason not to be so upset when these things happen. Whatever breaks down returns to the same things it was made from. Every breakdown is just the elements scattering back to where they came from. Or it's a change — solid things go back to earth, and pure, light things go back to air. So nothing is really lost. Everything goes back into the creative seeds of the universe. And this universe will either burn up after a certain time, or keep changing and renewing itself forever.
Though this besides might move not so grievously to take on when any such thing doth happen, that whatsoever is dissolved, it is dissolved into those things, whereof it was compounded. For every dissolution is either a mere dispersion, of the elements into those elements again whereof everything did consist, or a change, of that which is more solid into earth; and of that which is pure and subtile or spiritual, into air. So that by this means nothing is lost, but all resumed again into those rational generative seeds of the universe; and this universe, either after a certain period of time to lie consumed by fire, or by continual changes to be renewed, and so for ever to endure.