You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves will be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessarily for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
— The Bridge of San Luis Rey
When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s bothering to tell you anymore, that’s a very bad place to be. Your critics are your ones telling you they still love you and care.