“Depression is about feeling completely powerless and really angry at yourself because you're powerless.”
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Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 360.

“Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives.”
As quoted in Think and Grow Rich : A Black Choice (1991) by Dennis Kimbro and Napoleon Hill, p. 104
Context: Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.
“Because that's how it feels when you're depressed.”
when challenged on the design of his "vertical chamber apparatus".
as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002

Source: Educated (2018), Chapter 22, “What We Whispered and What We Screamed” (p. 197)