A man only appreciates happiness when he gets married, but by then it is too late. Frank Sinatra
By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze. Arundhati Roy
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better. Ernest Hemingway
She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore. Sarah Dessen
I don't know about five years from now. I have no plans for that. Maybe I'll be forgotten by then. Ai Weiwei