Among creatures, therefore, which are all so transitory, only the Soul exists eternally.

Delicious was the glow, though it lasted but for a few minutes-perhapsmore delicious because it was so transitory.

Everything on earth is so transitory, and the human heart has such a hunger for something that will last.

Instead of watching the elements attack a wall over time, here the images are so transitory they're gone in minutes.

Here man is free as he ought to be; nor is this pleasing equality so transitory as many others are.

And is this all that remains of him?-Duringa life so transitory, what lasting monument then can our fondest hopes erect?

There is, perhaps, no reputation that can be achieved amongst men that is so transitory, so evanescent, as that of a great advocate.

The soap-bubble is such a globe; only one had need of second sight or double sight to see the pictures on so transitory a mirror.

"Why is joy so transitory and unquiet so lasting?"

So transitory was the expression that none but a sensitive woman, and she in Grace's position, would have had the power to catch its meaning.