The Mourning After question

"Grief is a closing that leads to an opening just exactly when you really don't want one." Waters has lost his wife and little daughter to a storm. He says, "I lived for the love, and then I lived a for the pain, but then they took even that away from me." In "The Mourning After" Waters is a quiet native American who is just learning to open his heart again. His pithy, sometimes subdued comments really smack you in the gut, but it sometimes takes your mind a couple of beats to catch up.
- Have you any thoughts to offer on what he says about grieving?