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."

Burns associated their evanescence with the transitoriness of sensuous gratification:—“they flit ere you can point their place.”

The reflections are such as are common to all who have in all ages pleaded for the higher life under whatsoever form, and deplored the frailty and transitoriness of man's earthly estate.