Quote tattoo ideas

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Black script lettering reading Listen to the ocean on a pale blue background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Listen to the ocean script lettering
Black Arabic script with the English line be at peace, not in pieces beneath it, shown as a lettering design on a white background.
Arabic and English peace quote
Black hand-drawn fine line arrow above the words Keep Moving Forward in thin script, shown as a flash design on a plain white background.
Arrow with Keep Moving Forward lettering
Black ink hand-lettered design reading I'll Be there, with circular text around it, drawn on white paper beside a black Staedtler pigment liner pen.
Hand-lettered I'll Be there design on paper
Black ink flash drawing of a king of hearts and queen of spades playing card with ribbon banners reading You're the King, baby I'm your Queen, in a lettering and dotwork style.
King and queen playing cards with banner lettering
Black script lettering reading Be Stronger than Your Excuses, with a small swash flourish between the lines, on a white background.
Be Stronger than Your Excuses script lettering
Black hand-lettered quote design reading Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you, with a feathered arrow and a flowing underline, on a white background.
Keep your face toward the sunshine quote with arrow
Hand-drawn fine line arrow design with flowing script lettering reading follow your arrow wherever it goes, drawn in black ink on white paper.
Arrow with script quote design
Black lettering design on a white background reading "to the moon and back" in English, with the Arabic translation above it, in a Lettering style.
Arabic and English "to the moon and back" script
Black handwritten script lettering reading blessed are the pure in heart on a plain white background.
Handwritten script reading blessed are the pure in heart
Fine line handwritten script reading "Just be there" in black ink on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
"Just be there" handwritten script
Black brush-lettered phrase reading Through it all, it is well on a plain white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Through it all, it is well lettering
Black line drawing of the handwritten script phrase Do not fear, for I am with you, with the reference Isaiah 41:10 below, as a lettering design.
Do not fear, for I am with you script
Black hand-lettered script reading Stop and breathe on a white background, a flash design with no body placement shown.
Stop and breathe lettering design
Black ink flash sheet of Shakespeare quotes in script and typewriter lettering, with a small skull and a wreath design.
Shakespeare quote lettering flash sheet
Black monoline script lettering reading Dream without fear and Love without Limits on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Dream without fear and love without limits script
Black line flash design of a spiral shell built from brick-like segments, with the words There is no place like HOME running along the curve.
Spiral shell with 'There is no place like home'
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background, reading a quote about ink and breath, styled as a lettering design.
Handwritten script quote about ink and breath
Black handwritten script lettering reading Just a girl who decided to go for it, on a plain off-white background with a hatched strip across the top.
Script quote, Just a girl who decided to go for it
Fine line script design reading carpe diem, drawn with one continuous black line that extends to both sides, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Carpe diem script line design
Line drawing flash design of three lilac-shaded roses with grey leaves beside the lettering "We shall meet in a place where there is no darkness" and the numerals I-XVII-MMXV, shown on a white
Roses with quote lettering design
Handwritten script lettering reading I'll love you 'til the end in black ink on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Handwritten I'll love you 'til the end lettering
Black ink lettering design reading too weird to live, too rare to die, with three bats flying above the words on a white background.
Too weird to live, too rare to die lettering with bats
Black line drawing design of a seated meditating figure with a small flower at the centre, above a five-line script quote, in fine line style, not shown on skin.
Meditating figure with flower and quote script
Black handwritten script reading 'Who gon stop me' in thin monoline lettering on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Handwritten 'Who gon stop me' script design
Black fine-line cursive script reading Your forever is all that I need on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Cursive quote: Your forever is all that I need
Black script lettering reading 'Music is an outburst of the soul' beside a large treble clef, drawn as a tattoo-style design with no body part shown.
Treble clef with 'Music is an outburst of the soul'
Black fine line lettering design of the symbols G>ΛV above a horizontal rule and the words God is greater than the highs and lows, on a white background.
God is greater than the highs and lows
Black flowing script lettering reading À toi, pour toujours on a plain white background, a lettering design suited to a fine script tattoo.
French script quote lettering design
Black line drawing of two crossed leafy sprigs forming a V shape around a four-line italic quote, a fine line botanical tattoo design.
Crossed leafy sprigs with italic quote
Black script lettering reading Dance like the Maiden, Laugh like the Mother, Think like the Crone, with a small pentacle below, drawn as a tattoo design on a cream background.
Maiden, mother and crone script lettering with pentacle
Black and grey flash design of a shaded feather with the script words One day I'll fly away running diagonally across it.
Feather with One day I'll fly away script
Black ink drawing on paper of two semicolons with the hand-lettered words OUR STORIES and WILL NEVER END, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Semicolon with hand-lettered quote design
Black ink flash sheet showing three Deathly Hallows symbols with curved script quotes, and a pair of winged designs flanking the word Always.
Deathly Hallows symbols with script lettering
Hand-lettered navy script reading 'the ocean cures all' stacked over three lines on a white background, a lettering design suitable as a tattoo stencil.
The ocean cures all lettering design
Black brush script lettering on a white background reading be strong and courageous, with the reference Joshua 1:9 beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Be strong and courageous lettering design
Hand-drawn black ink design of a ship wheel and an anchor with script lettering reading be the one to guide me and but never hold me down, drawn across a spiral notebook.
Ship wheel and anchor script design
Black line drawing of a circular Tengwar script inscription, a Tolkien-style Elvish lettering design with no body part shown.
Tengwar ring inscription lettering design
Colour drawing of a tattoo design showing a purple and orange mountain inside a golden laurel wreath, with the words Don't paint me black when I used to be golden in black lettering.
Mountain in a golden laurel wreath with lettering
Black script lettering design of the quote I'm going to make everything around me beautiful, with flourished capitals and no body placement shown.
Script quote lettering design
Black ink lettering design of a feather and a flock of birds beside the script words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a white feathered background.
Feather, birds and script quote design
Black ink flash design of a feather breaking into flying birds above the script words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a white feathery background.
Feather dissolving into birds with script quote
Shaded purple feather tattoo design with the script line Not all those who wander are lost and small flying birds, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Purple feather with script quote
Black ink hand lettering on white reading IT IS well WITH MY soul, with tall capitals and flowing script words.
It is well with my soul lettering design
Black handwritten script reading Be true to who you are on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Be true to who you are handwritten script
Fine line handwritten script design reading I'll keep you safe, you keep me wild, in black ink on a white background, with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote in fine line script
Pencil sketch of a lettering flash design with ribbon banners reading Life is Short, Break the Rules, Kiss Slowly and Love Truly, drawn on graph paper.
Lettering flash with banners and quotes
Handwritten black ink script design reading breathe and this too will pass, drawn in a fine line lettering style on a pale grey-blue background.
Breathe and this too will pass script design