Two Woody Allens and Sophocles

Of Woody Allen i know something, i have seen and loved his work. Of Sophocles, not much more than the person existed once upon a time. I have seen Match Point in bits on TV. Never saw the end, though i was told what the end is. Chris kills Nora (Scarlett Johanson) and gets away with it. And i assume the cliched. But when i see it, i realise its not a simple "getting away". There is no getting away as it is revealed that Chris is haunted by his act. And when in a very theatrical fashion the Ghosts of his slain victims confront him and Nora asks him, what about our unborn child?

He says ---> Sophocles said, "To never have been born may be the greatest boon of all."

So here i find the original of it lying on my Mac! Its from Oedipus at Colonus. For that matter it makes another connection now i know why Freud called Oedipus complex so. Here it is reproduced :)

Not to be born at all
Is best, far best that can befall,
Next best, when born, with least delay
To trace the backward way.
For when youth passes with its giddy train,
Troubles on troubles follow, toils on toils,
Pain, pain for ever pain;
And none escapes life's coils.
Envy, sedition, strife,
Carnage and war, make up the tale of life.
Last comes the worst and most abhorred stage
Of unregarded age,
Joyless, companionless and slow,
Of woes the crowning woe.

Oh and i said two Wooody Allens, caught few minutes of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, caught on to the phrase, "Chronic Dissatisfaction". Chronic Dissatisfaction.