Quote tattoo ideas

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Black line drawing of a circular Gallifreyan script design in a fine-line style, with the words I will love you forever printed beneath it.
Gallifreyan circular script design
Hand-lettered black ink design reading You Are Enough inside a double circle on white paper, in a script lettering style.
You Are Enough lettering in a circle
Fine line script lettering design reading ..and in time, this too shall pass. in black ink on a plain white background.
Script quote lettering design
Pen sketch of the words Who I am today is worse than other times in mixed lettering styles, with no body part visible.
Hand-drawn lettering sketch of a quote
Black cursive script lettering design reading "it is what it is" in three lines on a white background, shown as a stencil-style flash design.
"It is what it is" script lettering design
Black and white flash design of a shield crest containing a bird, a pentagram, a TARDIS, a lattice panel and the text 221B, above a banner reading NOT ALL WHO WANDER ARE LOST.
Fictional house crest with TARDIS and 221B
Black handwritten script reading Just..... Be You. on a plain white background, a fine line lettering design with no body placement shown.
Just Be You handwritten script lettering
Six black line drawing flash designs of infinity symbols, each with a word or phrase such as family, sister, dream or always, some with small birds.
Infinity symbol tattoo designs with lettering
Black cursive lettering design reading no weapons, no hope, no friends, take that all away and what is left? me., shown on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Handwritten quote in cursive script
Black and grey flash design of a tree with a heart-shaped opening in the trunk, a small bird above and the words Strong roots produce beautiful leaves below.
Tree with heart and roots flash design
Black single-line drawing of the words The Country Life in flowing script, with an infinity loop flourish and an outlined heart, shown as a fine line lettering design on a white background.
The Country Life script with heart
Handwritten flourished script lettering design reading All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be, drawn in black ink on lined paper.
Looped script quote lettering design
Black handwritten script reading she laughs without fear of the future, with a small swallow silhouette, drawn as a tattoo design on a cream background.
Script quote with a swallow design
Coloured pencil drawing of a clenched fist with red nails and a lettering design reading 'be kind to yourself' with a small heart on the wrist, in a lettering style.
Fist with 'be kind to yourself' wrist design
Black and white lettering design in the shape of a rabbit standing upright, with the words I must become the lion hearted girl set in hand-drawn script.
Rabbit silhouette filled with lettering
Handwritten script design reading Believe in yourself a little more with a small heart beneath, drawn in black ink on a cream background, shown as a lettering tattoo design.
Believe in yourself a little more script
Drawn tattoo design of a shaded rose beside ornate script reading love me, with a line of serif text reading That's all I ask of you, on a white background.
Love me script with shaded rose design
Fine line black and grey drawing of a compass rose with an arrow running through it, feathered fletching and ribbon at the base, and the words Time flies like an arrow beneath.
Compass and arrow design with quote
Black and grey brush script reading Be Authentic on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
Be Authentic brush lettering design
Black line drawing of an arrow with feather fletching and the words be brave in cursive script, shown as a tattoo design sketch with no body placement visible.
Be brave arrow design
Black handwritten script lettering design reading it is okay to not be okay, shown on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Script quote: it is okay to not be okay
Black hand-lettered script reading Be you, bravely, set inside a looping wreath of leafy sprigs on a plain light background, shown as a tattoo design.
Be you, bravely lettering in a leafy wreath
Black ink flash design of a palm tree with the words Less Monday and More summer set in brush script either side of the trunk.
Palm tree with "Less Monday, more summer" lettering
Black handwritten script reading "you can do this" in a brush lettering style on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
"You can do this" script lettering design
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Black ink line drawing of a scroll banner reading FAITH, HOPE & LOVE within a handwritten scripture quote from 1 Corinthians 13:13, in a lettering style.
Banner lettering with 1 Corinthians 13:13
Black flourished script reading Live Out Loud on a white background, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Live Out Loud script lettering design
Black script lettering reading Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, with a feather and flying birds, drawn on a white feathered background.
Feather, birds and script quote design
Fine line cursive script reading nothing is permanent, drawn in dark ink across a pale textured background in a four-panel collage.
Nothing is permanent script lettering
Black hand-lettered script design on a white background reading Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn, with looping flourishes and a swash capital L.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn lettering
Black script quote reading In you, I've found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend, with two interlocking outline hearts below, on a cream background.
Script quote with interlocking hearts
Black ink drawing of an ornate compass rose mandala with leaf and dot detailing, with the words Not all those who wander are lost beneath it.
Compass rose mandala design on paper
Black and grey fine line design of five feathers above the lettering Under His wings you will find refuge, with Psalm ninety one verse four beneath it.
Five feathers with Psalm 91:4 lettering
Black and grey drawing of a skeletal marching band drum major with a plumed hat and baton, beside lettering reading I am not afraid to keep on living.
Skeleton drum major with lettering
Black and grey pencil drawing of a tattoo design with curling vines, small flowers, a pocket watch on a chain with a key, and the script words Life is what you make of it.
Vine, flowers and pocket watch design
Flash design of a ship's wheel and an anchor wrapped in rope, with script lettering reading Be the one to guide me but never hold me down, in black ink on a pale background.
Ship's wheel and anchor with quote lettering
Two matching black line drawings of a bare tree inside a circle, surrounded by elvish script and a short English quote beneath.
White Tree design with elvish script
Black and grey line drawing of a ribcage with roses and leaves beneath a sunburst, with the word Virgo and a short quote, shown as a tattoo design.
Ribcage and roses with Virgo lettering
Black and grey lettering design reading Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future, in a shaded and outlined traditional-style typeface on a beige background.
Every saint has a past lettering design
Black and grey pencil drawing of a compass with three ribbon banners reading Before you ask which, Way to go, remember and where you've been, shown as a tattoo design.
Compass with quote banners design
Black and grey pencil-style drawing of a feather dissolving into flying birds, with the script words sometimes you gotta fall before you fly running along the shaft, shown as a tattoo design.
Feather turning into birds with script
Black line drawing of an anchor with a heart at its base and the script words 'hope anchors the soul' beneath it, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Anchor and heart with script quote
Hand-drawn fine line design of an infinity symbol with a feather and the words life, love and not all who wander are lost, shown as a tattoo sketch on paper.
Infinity feather with quote design
Black handwritten script on a white background reading inhale confidence, exhale doubt, drawn as a fine line lettering design.
Inhale confidence, exhale doubt handwritten script
Fine line tattoo design of four birds in flight above the script lettering life is a beautiful struggle, shown on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Four birds above a script quote
White handwritten script reading "you got this" on a black background, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
You got this handwritten lettering
Black ink design of a large stylised letter K inside a circle, with a quotation written around the ring in hand-lettered capitals.
Circular quote around a large K
Black line drawing of a sword wrapped in ribbon banners reading 'All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us', with a shield, ring, rose and landscape vignette.
Sword and quote banners line design