“In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.”– Francois Hollande Related Quotes “Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.”– William Cowper “I hope this doesn’t sound pompous but I don’t think of myself as famous, whatever fame I’ve got has come through what I’ve done and associations of things I’ve done.”– Peter Cushing “Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”– Elbert Hubbard