Meanings of transitory life in English

Painful things occur every day, my dear madam, in this transitory life.

But I never considered it as other than a transitory life.

This is a poor transitory life in the best enjoyments.

In this transitory life, as the Prayer-book says, how can one ever be certain what is going to happen?

The little sunlit stage was full of vivid, trivial, transitory life, it seemed as a foil to the vast eternal scene.

Within the hollow flame of each transitory life is enclosed a part of the only Reality; but this is not a soul that transmigrates.

And the other life is not, in fact, thinkable to us except under the same forms as those of this earthly and transitory life.

For our ancestors gave those men who had encountered death in the cause of the republic an imperishable memory in exchange for this transitory life.

To him and to her (it had seemed) this warm, transitory life belonged; a fleeting space of time, a lodge leased to bliss.

The soul of humanity, as well as its body, is bound by sex conditions as long as it draws the breath of this transitory life.