YOU SAID:
Life is but a momentary lapse in death
INTO JAPANESE
人生は死のほんの一瞬です
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Life is just a moment of death
INTO JAPANESE
人生は死の瞬間です
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Life is the moment of death
INTO JAPANESE
人生は死の瞬間です
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Life is the moment of death
That didn't even make that much sense in English.