Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated. Iain Banks
It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. ... what has no meaning admits no explanation. Thomas Jefferson
A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness. Jean-Paul Sartre
Confuse not love with the ravings of possession, which bring the worst sufferings. For contrary to the general opinion, love does not cause suffering. But the instinct of ownership causes suffering, which is the contrary of love. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Now everything is clear. I admit my defeat. The tongue of my ravings in my ear is the tongue of a stranger. Anna Akhmatova
Without the state there would be anarchy for that is, despite all the perfervid ravings of the Marxist Left and statist Right, all that anarchy means-the absence of the state, the opportunity for liberty. Karl Hess