The last word of the wise on life has ever been its fleetingness, its appalling changes, its unexpected surprises.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
But when you stand before me in all the brightness of your glory, the fleetingness of everything earthly weighs down my mind, and I cannot refrain from saying, 'Take heed, noble baron!
"Sintram and His Companions"
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque Commentator: Charlotte M. Yonge
At his tenderest and most impressionable age, the boy was thus made sadly aware of the fleetingness of human life and the pains of bereavement.
"Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry"
Wilhelm Alfred Braun