That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't
think there are any such things as curses. I think there is
only life. That's enough."

What is the literary element of the passage ?

Theme

Explanation:

The theme is the big idea. It is about the point you are trying to get across about a certain topic. For this passage, the theme is life. The passage doesn't have the other literary elements like character(people), plot(story) or setting(the area where the characters are).

So, the answer is theme.

this answer was editing it cause i couldn't delete!

is it "means of nourishment"