Quote tattoo ideas

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Black script lettering reading Always on my mind and Forever in my heart, with two linked outline hearts, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Script quote with two hearts
Black and grey realistic angel wings drawn as a tattoo design, with the words "That which does not kill me makes me stronger" running between them, on a white background.
Angel wings with quote script
Black and grey tattoo design of a crossed bow and arrow with scrolling flourishes, with the words Skin of a Lady and Heart of a Hunter running along the arrow shaft.
Crossed bow and arrow with quote lettering
Black handwritten script lettering reading Do what you love. Love what you do. in a diagonal line on a white background, a fine line tattoo design.
Do what you love, love what you do script
Hand-drawn tattoo flash design of a barn owl wearing a pendant, with a banner reading No Power Over Me, shaded in pen and blue and orange watercolour wash.
Barn owl with banner reading No Power Over Me
Black handwritten script reading listen to your soul on a plain white background, a lettering tattoo design with thin, even linework.
Listen to your soul in handwritten script
Black script lettering reading You see all my light and You accept all my dark, paired with a black and white yin and yang symbol design.
Yin and yang with script quote
Black brush-script lettering reading in the waves of change we find our direction, framed by an arrow at the top and bottom, shown as a flash design.
Quote lettering with arrows flash design
Black and grey realism drawing of a feather with the script words Someday I'll fly away running across it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Feather with 'Someday I'll fly away' script
Black and grey flash design of three shaded feathers at different angles, with the script line I may not see you, but I can feel you running between them.
Three feathers with script quote
Black and grey lettering flash design reading From dust you were made unto dust you shall return, with a stippled skull beside the words.
Lettering flash with skull and dust quote
Black and grey shaded drawing of a lion cub inside a circle, with the words Remember who you are curved around the lower edge.
Lion cub design with 'Remember who you are'
Pencil drawing of a feather with birds lifting away from its tip and a script quote running along the shaft, shown in black and grey.
Feather with birds and script quote
Black ink drawing on paper of a dotwork mandala beside handwritten script reading For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.
Mandala design with script quote
Watercolour-style design of a dark feather fading from teal to purple, with the script words where you invest your love, you invest your life.
Feather with script quote in teal and purple
Black ink hand-lettered design reading I won't fall in love with falling, with the final word in flowing, elongated script on a plain off-white background.
Hand-lettered quote about falling
Hand-drawn tattoo design sketch in black ink reading I love you to the moon and back, with a moon, clouds and stars, lettering style, shown on paper with no body placement.
I love you to the moon and back design
Flash design of an elephant with black ornate patterning and watercolour splashes in pink, yellow and teal, with a feather above and the words you are not alone.
Watercolour elephant with feather
Sepia drawing of a swallow in flight beside cursive script reading and in time, this too shall pass.
Swallow in flight with cursive quote
Handwritten navy lettering reading I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote about a leaf on the wind
Black line tattoo design of overlapping Gallifreyan-style circles above the words I will love you through all of space and time, with an IPA transcription beneath.
Gallifreyan circles with a love quote
Black script lettering design reading 'And the chaos within me found balance' on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Script quote about chaos and balance
Black handwritten script lettering on white reading 'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger', shown as a lettering design with no body placement visible.
Handwritten quote, What doesn't kill you
Black and grey botanical tattoo design of dandelion seeds, daffodils, a rose and a sunflower with script lettering, shown on a white background.
Dandelion, daffodils, rose and sunflower with script
Black hand-drawn lettering design of phrases arranged in the shape of a cross, shown as a flash-style tattoo design on a white background.
Text cross lettering design
Black ink hand-lettered script design reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beside it, drawn on white paper as a lettering design.
Script lettering: I loved you at your darkest
Traditional style flash design of a red rose, pale blue snowflake and yellow flame above a ribbon banner reading KEEP MOVING FORWARD, with no body placement shown.
Rose, snowflake and ribbon quote design
Black line drawing of a sailing ship above a curling banner reading IT IS NOT DOWN ON ANY MAP TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, with waves below, in a traditional style.
Ship and banner quote design
Line drawing flash design of a ribboned banner reading I solemnly swear I am up to no good, above a trail of black footprints.
Banner quote with footprint trail
Black and grey fine line drawing of a bird with an arrow beneath the words Hope is the only thing stronger than fear, set on a white background.
Bird and arrow with quote design
Flash design of a cream ribbon banner with black script reading a quote about stars and returning, set on a purple background with black stars, drawn in a neo-traditional style.
Ribbon banner with a star-scattered quote
Black ink drawing of a geometric compass rose with a lotus-like centre, flanked by the letters N, E, S and W, with the quote Listen to your inner compass running up the page.
Compass rose design with inner compass quote
Black Arabic script reading Just breathe, with the English translation in a typewriter-style serif beneath, on a plain white background.
Arabic lettering reading Just breathe
Black line design of a long, diagonal script quote that ends in a feather, birds and a dreamcatcher, shown on a white background.
Script quote with feather and dreamcatcher
Black ink script lettering on white paper reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beside it, shown as a lettering tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Script lettering reading I loved you at your darkest
Black ink line drawing of a treble clef whose curls spell out the words whisper, words, of, wisdom, let it be, a lettering design shown on beige paper with no body placement visible.
Treble clef with looping script lettering