# IS life a curse? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 29, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040 "2016-10-29T18:40:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040/181 "2016-11-11T18:11:49Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > That’s just the depression talking. Depression lies like a sonofabitch. First thing the OP has to figure out is that just because you \*feel \*something doesn’t mean it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040/182 "2016-11-11T19:40:20Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > Please grow up. I’m asking here because I was not able to find an answer myself. You don’t want an answer. You’ve shown that in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040/183 "2016-11-11T21:59:48Z")
> **[Emil Cioran - Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran#The_Trouble_With_Being_Born_.281973.29)** Read some Cioran quotes. It won’t give you any revelations but it can give a cultivated validation others have felt similarly about existence. ---
**Author:** ![Machinaforce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040/184 "2016-11-12T02:26:00Z")
> [@yezlles](#): > > [Emil Cioran - Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran#The_Trouble_With_Being_Born_.281973.29) > > Read some Cioran quotes. It won’t give you any revelations but it can give a cultivated validation others have felt similarly about existence. This kind of reinforces what I’m already feeling ---
**Author:** ![Machinaforce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040/185 "2016-11-12T02:27:19Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Depression lies like a sonofabitch. First thing the OP has to figure out is that just because you \*feel \*something doesn’t mean it’s true. Couldn’t that also apply to feeling like your life has meaning because you made it? That can undermine pretty much all the “advice” given". ---
**Author:** ![Machinaforce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@Machinaforce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machinaforce)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040/186 "2016-11-12T02:28:52Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > You have all the answers you’re ever going to need. > > Refusing to accept that and to do what’s required is the cop out. > > Anyway, you don’t want “the answer”. You want to navel gaze while indulging in feeling sorry for yourself and have others take pity on you. Long as that feedback loop is working for you, you have no reason to change anything. > > Good luck with that. I want and answer because I want more than anything else to put this idea to bed. But obviously I haven’t been able to because this so called advice isn’t good enough. I fails to answer what I’m asking and falls short. I wouldn’t be here if it did answer my question. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040/187 "2016-11-12T03:48:51Z")
> [@Machinaforce](#): > > I want and answer because I want more than anything else to put this idea to bed. But obviously I haven’t been able to because this so called advice isn’t good enough. I fails to answer what I’m asking and falls short. I wouldn’t be here if it did answer my question. Perhaps, but plenty of folks have made a good-faith effort to try to respond thoughtfully, and that effort hasn’t been returned by you, in my view. As such, this thread is being put to bed. I hope you ultimately find what you’re seeking, but it’ll have to be outside of this message board. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-life-a-curse/770040.md?page=9)