Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Nadine Gordimer
In everyone there sleeps A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make By loving others, but across most it sweeps, As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. Philip Larkin
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. Chuck Palahniuk
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
These people [the Mason-family in Nova Scotia] have that sort of incandescence, which is peculiar to those who know the meaning of simplicity & humility. They are illumined from within makes them essentially mystical in their sense of life. Marsden Hartley
A poem should be a part of one's sense of life. Wallace Stevens