Quote tattoo ideas

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Black script lettering design on a white background, with Arabic calligraphy above the English words "If it's meant to be, It will be."
Arabic and English quote lettering design
Black ink drawing of a swallow above a speech-bubble shape containing the handwritten quote about desire and fire, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Swallow and quote design on paper
Black handwritten script lettering reading I'll keep you safe, you keep me wild, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Script quote: I'll keep you safe, you keep me wild
Black script lettering reading My Story Isn't Over, with a large solid black semicolon above and below it, on a plain white background as a lettering tattoo design.
Semicolon with My Story Isn't Over script
Two flash designs of script lettering reading I Love you more and I Love you most, each with a looping line and a small green heart.
I Love you more and I Love you most designs
Black handwritten script reading Inhale the future, exhale the past, drawn as a fine line tattoo design on a white background.
Inhale the future, exhale the past script
Black handwritten script on a white background reading And suddenly you were my everything, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Script quote: And suddenly you were my everything
Black hand-lettered script reading "you fearfully are & wonderfully made" with "Psalm 139:14" set on an infinity-style swash, drawn on a plain white background.
Hand-lettered Psalm 139:14 quote with infinity swash
Hand-drawn flash design of a crosshatched ribbon banner wrapping vertically, with the lettering 'You are what you love not who loves you' in black on a purple background.
Ribbon banner with 'You are what you love' lettering
Black ink drawing of a tattoo design with a curling scroll reading Embrace your Madness, a pocket watch, a top hat, playing card suits and a silhouette of Alice falling.
Alice in Wonderland quote scroll design
Grey flourished script reading faith above smaller pink lettering that reads is things which are hoped for and not seen, shown as a design on a plain white background.
Faith script lettering design
Black script lettering reading Just Breathe with a full stop, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Just Breathe script lettering design
Handwritten black script reading "with you, I am home" on a cream background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
With you, I am home lettering design
Black line drawing design of a script quote reading I think i'll miss you forever like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky, with silhouetted birds, shown on a white background.
Script quote with flying birds
Pen drawing of a tattoo design showing a black arrow with a patterned geometric shaft and the words follow your arrow where ever it points, drawn on lined paper.
Arrow with follow your arrow lettering
Black handwritten script reading inhale confidence, exhale doubt on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Handwritten quote: inhale confidence, exhale doubt
Black hand-lettered script reading The struggle is part of the story on a pale pink background, a Lettering design for a tattoo.
Script lettering: The struggle is part of the story
Black handwritten script reading Here comes the sun with a full stop, drawn as a fine line tattoo design on a plain white background.
Here comes the sun handwritten script
Black ink line drawing of a four-line ribbon banner with hand-drawn lettering and hatched shading on the folds, shown as a flash design on textured paper.
Ribbon banner with four lines of lettering
Fine black line drawing of a castle skyline with script lettering reading Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Hogwarts castle skyline with script quote
Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Black handwritten script on a white background reading never let your fear decide your fate, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote lettering design
Seven numbered lines of the words in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, set in different script and typeface styles, shown as a lettering design sheet with no body placement.
Seven lettering styles for a short quote
Black calligraphy script reading still i rise with long flowing flourishes on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Still I rise script lettering design
Tattoo design of the words Never Lose Your Flames in bold script lettering inside a flame shape, shaded from red at the top to black at the base.
Never Lose Your Flames lettering in a flame
Black and grey ink drawing of a giraffe with its neck curled round, with a line of text running down the neck in a lettering design.
Giraffe neck with quote lettering
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background reading 'the show must go on... All over the place... or something', a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten script quote: the show must go on
Black and grey flash sheet showing three arrow designs, two with script wording such as aim in life and keep aiming, with no body placement shown.
Three arrow designs with script quotes
Black ink line drawing of a segmented serpent biting its own tail in a circle, with the lettering Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration set around the edge.
Circular serpent design with quote lettering
Black lettering design of a two-line quote about an anchor and wings, with a hanging chain, a small anchor and a bird silhouette, shown on a plain white background.
Anchor and wings quote lettering design
Black hand-lettered design reading Embrace the Journey, with a looping script for Embrace and a swash-flourished The above a serif capitals JOURNEY, shown on a plain white background.
Embrace the Journey lettering design
Pen drawing of a shaded feather with the script words free yourself, live your dreams above it, as a tattoo design on paper.
Feather with 'free yourself' script design
Pen sketch of a head and shoulders in profile outline, with the words We're all stories in the end, Just make it a good one, eh? lettered inside the shape in a hand-drawn script.
Profile outline with lettered quote
Black ink drawing of a compass rose inside a pocket watch case with a calligraphic quote beside it, shown as a tattoo design.
Compass in a pocket watch case with quote
Black ink drawing of the hand-lettered words and if not he is still good, framed by a wreath of leaves, ferns and small flowers, shown as a design with no body placement.
Hand-lettered quote in a leafy wreath
Black line drawing of overlapping circles of varying sizes above the words You are Loved by so Many and so Much and By no One more than ME, on a white background.
Overlapping circles with quote lettering
White script lettering on a black background reading We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one, set inside a police box outline, shown as a lettering flash design with no body placement.
Police box with script quote design
Black line lettering design arranged in a circle reading 'What goes around comes around', shown on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Circular 'What goes around' lettering design
Black fine line script lettering reading focus on the good, drawn on a plain white background as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Focus on the good in fine line script
Black line drawing of a lettering design reading The Mountains Are Calling And I Must Go, with three peaks above and a ribbon banner below, in a lettering style.
The mountains are calling lettering design
Black fine-line handwritten script design reading she who is brave is free on a plain white background, with no body placement visible.
Script quote reading she who is brave is free
Black line drawing of a razor blade beside hand-lettered text reading "If I were you, I'd put that away" and "Darling, you'll be okay" on a white background.
Razor blade with hand-lettered quote
Black line drawing of the words Follow your heart in mixed lettering, with a simple arrow and a solid heart on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Follow your heart lettering with arrow
Black line flash design of an anchor with a small heart at its base, with the script words 'A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.' written above and below it.
Anchor with heart and sailor quote
Black flowing script lettering reading it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, drawn on a plain white background in a lettering style.
Script quote lettering design
Black ink flash sheet of lettering quotes, including follow your dreams, let it go, you got this and be strong and courageous, decorated with arrows and feathers, with no body placement shown.
Arrow and lettering quote flash sheet
Black line drawing of an arched headstone with a small winged cherub at the top, the words EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL, AND NOTHING HURT in outlined capitals, and tufts of grass at the base.
Headstone with angel and quote
Black hand-lettered script reading choose joy on a white background, with soft grey brush texture and no body placement shown.
Choose joy hand lettering design