--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt…" description: "\"The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying to find the other piece of this puzzle that goes with us\" — E E Cummings" image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/e-e-cummings-3-38889_life_the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-b_977019.jpg" --- # The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together… ![“The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying to find the other piece of this puzzle that goes with us” quote by E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/e-e-cummings-3-38889_life_the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-b_977019.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/e-e-cummings-3-38889_life_the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-b_977019.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/e-e-cummings-3-38889_life_the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-b_977019.jpg) > “The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying to find the other piece of this puzzle that goes with us” [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. Life is an unfinished puzzle; we seek the missing piece that aligns with our identity. **In simple terms:** Life is a puzzle seeking its piece. Key Takeaway Search for your fitting piece. Themes identity search purpose Mood reflective hopeful Type philosophical inspirational When to use this quote - career choices - relationship building - creative endeavors Key Concepts existentialism self‑discovery Questions to Reflect On - What piece feels missing in your life? - How can you create your own missing piece? A Different Perspective Finding the piece may be ambiguous. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/love/) [Puzzle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/puzzle/) [Relationships](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/relationships/) [World](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/world/) ## Related quotes > [My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-belew/my-favorite-puzzle-is-trying-to-work-out-the-parts-myself-after-all/) [Adrian Belew](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adrian-belew/) > [I just love characters that are complex, that you can dig into and keep itching the scratch and never quite be satisfied because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cameron-britton/i-just-love-characters-that-are-complex-that-you-can-dig-into-and/) [Cameron Britton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cameron-britton/) > [“...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-patchett/as-if-the-world-had-become-a-giant-train-station-in-which-everything/) [Ann Patchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-patchett/) > [I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noah-hawley/i-think-that-we-re-pattern-seeking-animals-and-what-we-like-best-is-a/) [Noah Hawley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noah-hawley/) > [“The key may be tackling something new; the challenge of the unknown is likely more beneficial than putting together the same jigsaw puzzle over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-key-may-be-tackling-something-new-the-challenge-of-the-unknown-is/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Putting together a hit record is like putting together a puzzle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-will-made-it/putting-together-a-hit-record-is-like-putting-together-a-puzzle/) [Mike Will Made It](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-will-made-it/) > [Tennis is a big puzzle. It's not any more physical or mental; you have to have all the pieces first, and then you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-wawrinka/tennis-is-a-big-puzzle-it-s-not-any-more-physical-or-mental-you-have/) [Stan Wawrinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-wawrinka/) > [Whenever you start working on something, you have to go about it with the underlying assumption that this puzzle has a solution, right? If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boyan-slat/whenever-you-start-working-on-something-you-have-to-go-about-it-with/) [Boyan Slat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boyan-slat/) > [Reading Dorothy B. Hughes's novel 'In a Lonely Place' for the first time is like finding the long-lost final piece to an enormous puzzle.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-abbott/reading-dorothy-b-hughes-s-novel-in-a-lonely-place-for-the-first-time/) [Megan Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-abbott/) > [“While we go through our lives looking for the puzzle pieces to complete our story, we are unknowingly creating them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/garry-fitchett/while-we-go-through-our-lives-looking-for-the-puzzle-pieces-to/) [Garry Fitchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/garry-fitchett/) > [“How do you know when you're There, I had once wondered. Maybe you're lucky enough to notice the moment it's happening to you. Maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-hockley/how-do-you-know-when-you-re-there-i-had-once-wondered-maybe-you-re/) [Julie Hockley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-hockley/) > [Coaching is very complex: it's like a puzzle, and many things need to come together to make it work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stan-wawrinka/coaching-is-very-complex-it-s-like-a-puzzle-and-many-things-need-to/) [Stan Wawrinka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stan-wawrinka/) > [God has a purpose for us. If he didn't we wouldn't be alive in the first place. We have a calling. We are a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenny-janssen/god-has-a-purpose-for-us-if-he-didn-t-we-wouldn-t-be-alive-in-the/) [Kenny Janssen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenny-janssen/) > [When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erno-rubik/when-you-are-studying-from-a-book-lots-of-people-go-straight-to-the/) [Erno Rubik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erno-rubik/) > [Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-boyd/music-is-a-lot-more-like-solving-an-intricate-puzzle-with-moments-of/) [Brandon Boyd](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandon-boyd/) ## More by E E Cummings > [Love is the voice under all silences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/love-is-the-voice-under-all-silences/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [“The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/the-symbol-of-all-art-is-the-prism-the-goal-is-unrealism-the-method-2/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [“10 maggie and millie and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/10-maggie-and-millie-and-molly-and-may-went-down-to-the-beach-to-play/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [We fit together so well...it's like pieces of a puzzle, the way your hand fits the curve of my hip and the way my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/we-fit-together-so-well-it-s-like-pieces-of-a-puzzle-the-way-your/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me knows the voice of your eyes is deeper than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/i-don-t-know-what-it-is-about-you-that-closes-and-opens-only/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [“let’s live suddenly without thinking under honest trees, a stream does.the brain of cleverly-crinkling -water pursues the angry dream of the shore. By midnight,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/let-s-live-suddenly-without-thinking-under-honest-trees-a-stream-does/) [e e cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/to-be-nobody-but-yourself-in-a-world-that-s-doing-its-best-to-make/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [“Almost anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. The moment you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/almost-anybody-can-learn-to-think-or-believe-or-know-but-not-a-single/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [To be nobody but yourself in a world doing its best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/to-be-nobody-but-yourself-in-a-world-doing-its-best-to-make-you/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) > [The most wasted day of all is the one without laughter. Most people like to think that their day was productive. however, some days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/the-most-wasted-day-of-all-is-the-one-without-laughter-most-people/) [E E Cummings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) [Explore all 11 E E Cummings quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/) ## More Life quotes > [Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/teddy-atlas/of-all-the-people-who-have-affected-my-life-and-influenced-the/) [Teddy Atlas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/teddy-atlas/) > [What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/what-sets-worlds-in-motion-is-the-interplay-of-differences-their/) [Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/) > [Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/life-is-full-of-change-that-s-how-we-learn-and-grow/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/beth-moore/life-works-most-perfectly-when-a-reciprocal-love-relationship-is-in/) [Beth Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/beth-moore/) > [I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-miller/i-value-the-experiences-that-come-with-life-too-much-to-sit-by-and/) [Jim Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-miller/) > [Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-chabon/entertainment-is-a-sacred-pursuit-when-done-well-when-done-well-it/) [Michael Chabon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-chabon/) > [“There's more to life than you can see. Your sight is limited.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tammy-kling/there-s-more-to-life-than-you-can-see-your-sight-is-limited/) [Tammy Kling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tammy-kling/) > [“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deanna-l-lawlis/i-ve-spent-much-of-my-life-calling-my-intuition-something-wrong-with/) Deanna L. Lawlis > [When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kym-marsh/when-you-do-things-they-re-absolutely-right-at-that-time-for-you-and/) [Kym Marsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kym-marsh/) > [The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-klosterman/the-only-people-who-think-the-internet-is-a-calamity-are-people-whose/) [Chuck Klosterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-klosterman/) > [The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwayne-johnson/the-one-thing-that-i-keep-learning-over-and-over-again-is-that-i-don/) [Dwayne Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwayne-johnson/) > [“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write,    To thank the God of nature, who conveyed    My soul to me, and with such care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/this-tale-of-my-sore-troubled-life-i-write-to-thank-the-god-of-nature/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-future-is-only-an-indifferent-void-no-one-cares-about-but-the/) [Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/) > [Two things revolutionised life: moving to the countryside and falling in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-love/two-things-revolutionised-life-moving-to-the-countryside-and-falling/) [Nick Love](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-love/) > [But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-rice/but-just-remember-life-without-me-would-be-even-more-unbearable/) [Anne Rice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-rice/) [Browse all 265,290 Life quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying to find the other piece of this puzzle that goes with us", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "E E Cummings" }, "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-been-put-together-yet-and-were/", "about": { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Life" }, "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-been-put-together-yet-and-were/#quotation", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/e-e-cummings-3-38889_life_the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-b_977019.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/e-e-cummings-3-38889_life_the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-b_977019.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/e-e-cummings-3-38889_life_the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-b_977019.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The world is a giant puzzle that hasnt been put together yet, and were trying to find the other piece of…” — E E Cummings", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "E E Cummings", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-e-cummings-3/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "The world is a giant puzzle...", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-been-put-together-yet-and-were/" } ], "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-e-cummings-3/the-world-is-a-giant-puzzle-that-hasnt-been-put-together-yet-and-were/#breadcrumb" }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```