Man, it takes a ton of guts to keep going when you've lost so close to the money so many times. Poker life isn't easy, sometimes your intuition has to battle some really brutal statistical outcomes.
Just keep in mind that a single WSOP win, or even final table appearance, will more than make up for any number of previous losses. If you stay focused and play well, lady luck is gonna pick you eventually.
There are other tournaments, so this isn't the only major event all year. It just so happens in the best tournament of the year I've gone 0 for 8. Most of the other events are skippable, but I need to be playing this one every year, and as you say, good players are more likely to finish towards the top than bad ones and those outweigh the out of the money finishes.