He has seen it all-the miracle of that life and death; the need, and yet the transiency, of death and sin; the constant presence of the Divine love; those things which not only were to him, but are.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
Even Heraclitus the Dark, who was also called "the Weeping Philosopher," because he found at the very heart of nature that transiency which the philosophical mind seeks to escape, felt himself to be exalted as well as isolated by that insight.
"The Approach to Philosophy"
Ralph Barton Perry
Once back at the hotel, with Albert's room locked off, and once more thrown open to the impersonal feet of transiency, she would only moan and wind her hands and go off into the light states of unconsciousness.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst