The root of all fear is imagination.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it:…

— Sylvia Plath

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it:…

— Sylvia Plath

If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a non-supportive root such as fear, anger or the need to 'prove' yourself, your…

— T. Harv Eker

At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up…

— David J. Lieberman

Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that…

— Anonymous

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

— Frances Moore Lappé

There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The idea that the spirits of those once tortured in the house might still be there was the avenue his imagination began to explore.…

— Matthew Williams

Life is a tragic game, filled with misery. Yet we never persist to change, but we never change ourselves. The thing sad, is we've…

— Jeremy Limn

“He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision.”

— Lionel Suggs

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us…

— Patricia A. McKillip

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

— J. K. Rowling

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew…

— Brenda Ueland

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

— Ashleigh Brilliant