“I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there’s hope out there.”– Danielle Steel Related Quotes “Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”– William Cowper “I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.”– Joel Osteen “You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance.”– Charles Ives