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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.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2019

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

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

"It catches perfectly the play's melancholy and preoccupation with time, transitoriness and loss," says our own Michael Billington, "even if it cannot efface golden memories of the one he did at Stratford in 1958."

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2011

Yet they are capable of a certain philosophical appreciation of the value and transitoriness of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

While tragedy196 precipitates the conflict of hostile forces, comedy, rising serene above folly and all indications of transitoriness, reconciles inconsistencies, and lovingly coaxes them into harmony with the true and the absolute.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav