transitoriness

Such writers suggest the radical path to happiness comes from recognising the inevitability of unhappiness that comes as a result of the human birthright, that is, randomness, mortality, transitoriness, uncertainty and injustice.

But if there is one thing I can say about Ohio, it is that nowhere I’ve lived possesses such a sense of transitoriness.

Another glossary entry reads: "Fireflakes: the stars; as transitory as snowflakes only their transitoriness is protracted."

I suggest you surrender to your sorrow about the passing of everything, the transitoriness of everything, and resist the temptation to believe that what’s important is what our boss is going to say to us tomorrow, or how our children will be judged in their test-taking competitions.

In the true spirit of paganism he associates all thoughts of love and wine, of the meeting of friends, or of the changes of the seasons with the recollection of the transitoriness of our pleasures— “Nos, ubi decidimus Quo pius Aeneas, quo dives Tullus et Ancus, Pulvis et umbra sumus.”