Life is a predicament which precedes death.
lifetime
A selected quote by Henry James.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Related
The poetry of the earth is never dead
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
Lost time is never found again
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.