The phrase "an object of life" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that holds significance or purpose in one's life.
Example: "For many, family is considered an object of life that brings joy and fulfillment."
Alternatives: "a purpose in life" or "a focus of existence".
They're looking for the usual stuff: secret messages, hidden passageways, an object of life-or-death importance.
Health is, therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not an object of living; it is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities" [ 32].
Like many young men and women, he had learned that to be gay was to be an aberration, an object of ridicule, a life sentence.
For those of us who love dogs in the same way other people love people (only we love dogs a bit more), the object of life is simple: a dog of one's own.
For example, in many low-resourced countries it is believed that persons with permanent impairments such as SCI will depend on their families and be an object of charity their entire life.
The oversized Toblerones sold at duty free shops get a new lease of life as an object of ridicule: "They're not a luxury item.
By simply being present in the open ocean, and an object of curiosity for passing marine life, FADs attract fish – including large shoals of skipjack.
The money also makes her, for the first time in her quiet life, an object of considerable attraction, to three suitors as well as a classic 19th‑century evangelical group, whom Trollope treats with the kind of ingenious mockery more usually associated with Jane Austen.
The agent of Rorty's public ethics is a socially connected, benevolent self, both a subject and an object of our affirmation of ordinary life" (p. 133).
Possessions may not be the object of life, but life without objects would be a lot less interesting.
The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist, even if in pain.
