Quote tattoo ideas

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Fine line script lettering reading Dream without fear and Love without Limits in black ink on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Dream without fear, love without limits lettering
Pen and watercolour style design of a dreamcatcher with peacock feathers, blue dots and flowers on the hoop, drawn on paper in a fine line botanical style.
Dreamcatcher with peacock feathers and flowers
Hand-drawn infinity symbol tattoo designs in black fine-line pen on paper, with script words such as love, faith, peace, hope and infinity.
Infinity symbol designs with script words
Black line drawing of a simple cross above the fine-line lettering I surrender who I've been for who you are, on a plain light grey background.
Cross and lettering quote design
Black line drawing of a fine-lined arrow above a block of text quoting a passage about focus and aiming.
Arrow tattoo design with quote
Hand-drawn black pen sketches of infinity symbols with fine-line lettering such as love, faith, peace, hope and young, plus a heart with an infinity knot, on paper.
Infinity symbol lettering sketches
Black fine line script reading alis volat propriis, ending in a detailed feather, drawn as a tattoo design on a white background.
Alis volat propriis script with feather
Black fine line script reading live your dream on a white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Live your dream script lettering
Fine line black script lettering reading Courage, dear heart with the attribution CS Lewis beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Courage, dear heart script lettering design
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 and grey stippled line drawing of an ornate old key beside the hand-lettered words 'We carry our prisons with us'.
Ornate key and 'We carry our prisons with us'
Black and grey pen drawing of a compass rose with an arrow, trailing ribbons and the words Time flies like an arrow, shown as a tattoo design.
Compass rose and arrow design with quote
Single continuous fine line drawing of a dancer in an arched pose on a cream background, with two lines of script beneath the figure.
Single-line dancer with quote text
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
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 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
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
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 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 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 and grey line drawing of an anchor wrapped in an infinity loop, with the script words Love anchors the soul and Hebrews 6:19 and a small heart beside it.
Anchor, infinity loop and script quote
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
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
Black handwritten script reading inhale confidence, exhale doubt, drawn in thin black ink on a white background.
Inhale confidence, exhale doubt 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
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
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 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
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
Pen drawing of an infinity symbol with the words live life with no regrets written in thin fine line script, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Infinity symbol with 'live life with no regrets' script
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
Flash sheet of fine line designs with black ink and pale watercolour washes, including a hand, Saturn, a birdcage, a teacup, a bicycle and a paper plane, each with a text banner.
Sticker sheet of quote-banner designs
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 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
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 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 fine line script reading Dreams do come true followed by a solid mouse ears silhouette with a small heart, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Dreams do come true script with mouse ears
Black fine-line handwritten script reading "you got this." on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
"You got this." handwritten script design
Handwritten black script reading "with you, I am home." in a fine line lettering design on a cream background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Handwritten "with you, I am home" script
Black linework drawing of a dreamcatcher with three hanging feathers and a quote lettered around the hoop, shown as a flash design.
Dreamcatcher with feathers and quote
Black and grey fine line design of a dandelion clock releasing seeds towards two birds, with the words this too shall pass written along the stem.
Dandelion seeds with script stem design
Fine line drawing of a hand mid finger snap with the words SNAP OUT OF IT across the fingers, shown as a flash design for a hand tattoo.
Snap out of it hand design
Black line drawing of the handwritten words One of a kind in fine script lettering on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
One of a kind handwritten script
Black ink fine line drawing of a sailing ship on waves with the words a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor and a dangling anchor, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Sailing ship, waves and anchor with quote