Quote tattoo ideas

3,385 photos and flash · 88% Lettering, 30% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Black and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and several script phrases, with no body placement shown.
Harry Potter themed tattoo flash sheet
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background reading Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, with The Beatles written beneath, suitable as a lettering design.
Script quote from The Beatles lyric
Black typewriter-style lettering reading "but first, tea" on a white background, with a distressed stamp-like texture, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
But first, tea lettering design
Hand-drawn black script lettering reading Trust Your Struggle on cream paper, with a Sharpie marker beside it, shown as a lettering design sketch.
Trust Your Struggle lettering sketch
Pencil-style drawing of a tattoo design in which an infinity symbol is formed by an anchor chain with pink roses and the words I refuse to sink.
Infinity anchor and rose design
Black hand-lettered quote 'Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.' curved in an arch on a white background.
Arched quote lettering design
Black script lettering reading She believed she could so she did on a white background, with small mandala doodles in the corners, drawn as a lettering design.
She believed she could so she did lettering
Black ink drawing of the phrase It is well with my soul in hand-lettered script, flanked by two sprigs of leaves and berries on a white background.
It is well with my soul lettering with leafy vines
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Black silhouette tree with spreading roots and leaves, with the word Family in script and a quote about branches and roots, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Tree with roots and family script quote
Black teardrop design with white ornate script lettering reading The craziest thing we can do is nothing, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Teardrop lettering with swirled script
Black handwritten script lettering reading wander often and wonder always on a white background, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Wander often, wonder always script lettering
Black and grey circular design of a mountain range, pine trees and stars beneath a quote in capitals, drawn in a woodcut style.
Mountains, pines and stars in a circle
Black flourished lettering design reading Not all who wander are lost, set in mixed capitals and swash letters on a plain white background.
Not all who wander are lost lettering
White script lettering reading Be Brave above a horizontal arrow, shown as a tattoo design on a black background.
Be Brave script lettering with arrow
Pencil sketch of a compass rose with N, E, S and W labels and the words A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor set in a circle around the centre.
Compass rose with sailor quote
Flash drawing of pink lips biting a gold bullet engraved with the words Trust no Bitch, in a traditional style, with no placement on the body shown.
Pink lips biting a bullet with script
Black handwritten script reading 'This too shall pass.' on a plain white background, a lettering design suited to a fine line tattoo.
Handwritten 'This too shall pass' lettering
Fine line script lettering reading Dare to Begin, drawn in black ink on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Dare to Begin script lettering design
Black line drawing flash design of an anatomical heart cradled by a hand, with the lettering Do not hold my heart unless you want to hold my hand.
Anatomical heart held in a hand
Pencil and ink sketch of a small girl with her hair in a bun, holding balloon strings behind her back, with the words Sometimes you have to let go, to be able to move on around a circle.
Girl releasing balloons with circular quote sketch
Fine line tattoo design of a meditating figure in lotus position with a small flower at the chest, above the handwritten words Whatever comes, let it come, and so on.
Meditating figure with lotus and quote
Red line drawing of a heart with a sprig of three flowers and a black script quote beneath, a flash design with no visible body placement.
Heart with flower sprig and script quote
Handwritten black ink script on white paper reading I exist as I am, that is enough, with an attribution beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Handwritten quote in script
Pencil drawing of flourished script lettering reading Generic Life Advice You've Heard Before, sketched on grid paper beside a black brush pen.
Script lettering design on grid paper
Black ink line drawing of a circular mountain landscape with pine trees, cottages, a winding path and a moon, framed by the words I could have lived a million different lives.
Circular mountain landscape with quote
Black line drawing of an eye above stacked chevron arrows, with the handwritten quote 'My eyes are open to the path I am on' beneath it.
Eye above stacked chevrons with quote
Pencil drawing of a tattoo design with two heart-shaped dreamcatchers, feathers, butterflies and script lettering, with no body placement shown.
Heart dreamcatchers and butterflies with script
Black lettering design on a plain white background reading BREATHE in spaced capitals above the handwritten phrase this isn't the end, with no body part shown.
Breathe and this isn't the end lettering
Black ink pen drawing of a hot air balloon with banners reading It's not about the destination and It's about the journey, surrounded by clouds, rays and an anchor, in a lettering style suited to a
Hot air balloon with journey banner design
Black handwritten script on a white background reading Better an oops than a what if, shown as a lettering design with no body placement visible.
Better an oops than a what if script
Two hand-drawn black ink infinity symbol designs on paper, each with script lettering running along the loop and small outlined hearts.
Infinity symbol with hearts and script lettering
Fine line drawing of a small lion cub above which the handwritten words never forget who you are appear, in black ink on beige paper.
Lion cub and quote line drawing
Black ink line drawing of a three-masted ship on hatched waves with a dotted line to an anchor, above the script words Life's roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors, on crumpled paper.
Ship, waves and anchor with script quote
Black handwritten lettering design reading "Choose to chance the rapids" above an ampersand and "dare to dance the tides" on a white background.
Handwritten quote design in two lines
Black hand-drawn outline of a bow above the handwritten words 'a girl without a bow is not a girl' on a cream background, shown as a flash-style design.
Bow and handwritten quote design
Pencil-style drawing of a fine-line botanical tattoo design with a curling vine, a pocket watch, a key and the words Life is what you make of it, shown on a pale pink background.
Vine, pocket watch and key design
Black and grey flash design of a stylised phoenix in flight beside flowing calligraphic lettering on a cracked cream background.
Phoenix with flowing calligraphic script
Black fine line book stacks, quotation marks, Peter Pan silhouettes and quote lettering shown as a flash sheet, with the designs applied to a forearm in the lower right photo.
Book and quote designs on forearms
Purple line drawing of a skull decorated with roses, vines and a small figure, with banners reading At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.
Skull with roses and quote banners
Black ink drawing of a top hat with a ribbon, above the quote "It's only a dream..." and the word ALICE, in a fine line style, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Top hat with ribbon and Alice quote
Black and grey flash design of dandelion seeds drifting into swallows, with the script line Every breath is a second chance.
Dandelion seeds turning into birds with script quote
Black silhouette flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, in a serif typeface on a white background.
Two swallows above a quote
Handwritten lettering design in black ink on paper reading Let your faith be bigger than your fear, with a small outlined heart at the end.
Let your faith be bigger than your fear
Black hand-drawn script lettering of the lyric Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, with The Beatles beneath, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Whisper words of wisdom lettering
Black script lettering reading if you can't live longer, live deeper, with a small aeroplane silhouette below, shown as a tattoo design on a sepia background with no body part visible.
Script quote with small aeroplane design
Flash design drawing of ornate black script reading And Though She Be But Little She Is Fierce, framed by dark red roses with drips, with no body placement shown.
Script quote with red roses flash design
Pencil sketch of cursive script lettering arranged in a circle reading what goes around comes around, drawn on paper with no body placement visible.
Circular script lettering sketch