fleetingness

Have someone die in your arms and then you'll understand the fragility, fleetingness, and beauty of us all.

I don't think you understand the difference between value judgements of ethics and morality or the fleetingness of history.

I learned a lot that day about the fleetingness of our short lives, the value of agency, and the human endeavor.

Yes but I see the fleetingness of life allegory as applying to everyone.

I accept my age; the feeling of time's fleetingness; that I will cease to be (god/Jesus, Viracocha, Mandaeism, Zoroastrianism...

This provides a feeling of fleetingness that I think makes some people (especially super detail oriented project managers) nervous.

People should have their stuff deleted after a while but there is a sense of permanentness in internet culture and that should change to one of fleetingness which more bitrott may actually bring about causing more people to back up their own stuff instead of leaving it to these companies.

Because of the fleetingness of the things we do online, even if the particulars are boring and mind-numbing (e.g., reading fifteen Cracked Top 10 articles in a row, or fruitlessly tweeting to tech celebrities in hope of a reply), we don't notice because the experience in general gives us the impression of fulfillment by virtue of its variety alone.

The point is not "the fleetingness of life" per se, it's the question of what comes before and what comes after.