They will chop down her forest, declares the LORD, dense though it may be, for they are more numerous than locusts; they cannot be counted.
- Jeremiah 46:23
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The infinite space that each man carries within himself, wherein despairingly he contrasts the movement of his spirit with the acts of his life, is and overpowering thing.
- Victor Hugo
What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.