Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Colourful neo-traditional tattoo on a leg of a grinning alien with an exposed brain and bulging eyes, beside red lettering reading ACK! ACK! ACK!, flying saucers, leaves and red flowers.
Alien with exposed brain and ACK! ACK! ACK! lettering
Black script lettering reading If you're a bird, I'm a bird, with small flying bird silhouettes, tattooed on the back of a neck.
Bird quote script on the back of the neck
Black fine line script quote tattooed along the upper thigh, with a small outlined bird and a red heart below the text.
Quote and bird on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo reading I swear we were infinite across the top of a bare foot on sand, in a lettering style and placed on the foot.
Quote tattoo across the top of a foot
Black and grey Batman mask tattoo on a forearm, with bats, a bat logo and the typed quote Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Batman mask and quote on a forearm
Black script lettering tattoo reading 'He is jealous for me' across a forearm, set against a blue background.
Script quote 'He is jealous for me' on a forearm
Black and grey script lettering reading All God's Angels Come To Us Disguised across the ribs, in a lettering style with a fine, even stroke.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black serif lettering tattoo reading 'We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness' on the upper body.
Serif quote tattoo on skin
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm reading Blood makes you related and Loyalty makes you family, with smoke-like shading above the text.
Lettering quote on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading One foot in the grave on the calf of a leg, shown next to a prosthetic leg with a trainer on the foot.
Quote lettering on a calf beside a prosthetic leg
Close-up of a black script quote reading Tale as old as Time above a colour rose with a green stem and small bud on the back of a hand.
Script quote and rose on the back of a hand
Two people stand side by side showing fine line black script tattoos on their ribs, reading "To infinity" and "and beyond".
Matching "To infinity" and "and beyond" rib script
Two stacked photographs of black script lettering: on the side of the ribs it reads I carry your heart with me, and on the chest it reads I carry it in my heart.
Script quotes on ribs and chest
Black compass rose tattoo with blue, green, pink and red watercolour splashes and a script quote, on a forearm.
Compass rose with watercolour splashes on a forearm
Black lettering reading 'To die will be an awfully big adventure' above a thin outlined eight-pointed star, tattooed on a forearm in a lettering style.
Quote and star on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo on the lower leg above a sandal strap, showing a feathered wing on a wand with a triangle and circle symbol, small stars and the script words It's real for us.
Winged wand and script on the lower leg
Two forearms crossed together, each with matching black script reading I will always stand by your side and a small swallow on the forearm.
Matching script quote and swallow tattoos
Black script tattoo of the words 'The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow' across the lower back, just above a waistband.
Script quote tattoo across the lower back
Black ink line drawing of an ornate vintage key with stippled dotwork shading beside the words 'We carry our prisons with us' in handwritten capitals, with no body placement shown.
Key with a 'We carry our prisons with us' quote
Black lettering tattoo reading "One foot in the grave" on the back of a calf, beside a blue prosthetic leg.
Lettering reading one foot in the grave on a calf
Black ink quote tattoo reading 'The hardest thing in this world is to live in it' in serif lettering, running along a forearm.
Quote tattoo along a forearm
Black and grey leaf scroll tattoo beside script lettering reading 'It's supposed to be you and me against the world', on the side of the ribs.
Leaf scroll and script quote on the ribs
Black handwritten script lettering tattooed across a person's upper back and shoulder blade, with a hand resting on the shoulder.
Script quote across a shoulder blade
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading all good things are wild and free on a person's ribs, with a white top and dark-painted nails at the edge of the frame.
Script quote along the ribs
Black script tattoo reading 'You'll never walk alone' running along the top of a foot, with matching tattoos on a second pair of feet beside it.
You'll never walk alone script on feet
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading but the fighter still remains, placed on the middle of a person's back.
Fine line script quote on the mid back
Watercolour-style monarch butterfly and handwritten script on a woman's upper back, with a black circle and a small heart beside it, placed on the shoulder blade.
Watercolour butterfly and script on upper back
Black and grey photograph of the words you only live once in black script tattooed diagonally across the inner forearm.
You only live once script on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading Never look back on the inner forearm, set against reddened skin.
Never look back in script on the arm
Two people press their inner forearms together, each showing half of a circular fine-line script tattoo that reads follow me and I'll follow you around a small outline motif.
Circular script quote tattoo on two forearms
Painted-style colour tattoo of Batman with a glowing bat emblem on the chest, beside red and black quote lettering, across the left ribs.
Batman and quote tattoo on the ribs
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
Black ink quote tattoo in a gothic-style serif on the inner upper arm, reading I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.
Poem quote along the inner upper arm
Black fine line script tattoo reading Life's roughest storms prove the strength of our anchors, with a small anchor, on the side of a foot.
Script quote and anchor on a foot
Black fine line lettering on two feet, one reading for them I'd risk it all and the other reading because of her I will not fall.
Matching quote tattoos on two feet
Black fine-line lettering tattoo of a quote in a serif script running along the inner forearm near the wrist, against a pale fluffy background.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'jeder tag ist ein geschenk' across the inner forearm, shown on a pale arm resting on a dark leather cushion.
German script quote on a forearm
Black and grey pencil sketch of a dragonfly with spread wings and the words embrace imperfection in cursive script above it, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Dragonfly sketch with 'embrace imperfection'
Two people wearing bras and loose tops show matching black script tattoos reading "to infinity" and "and beyond" on the upper chest.
Matching "to infinity and beyond" script tattoos on chests
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with ornamental flourishes above and below the text.
Quote lettering with flourishes on a thigh
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
Colour realism tattoo of planets, including ringed Saturn, in a pink and blue nebula, with a quote written across the thigh.
Planets and nebula with quote on thigh
Side view of a torso in a bikini on a beach, showing a black and grey shaded feather on the hip, a column of small birds up the ribs and fine script with stars above.
Feather, birds and script on a side torso
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
Two matching black and grey tattoos of a bare tree with the words Sister to sister on the calves of two people, shown side by side.
Matching sister family tree tattoos on calves
Close-up of a fine line black script quote running diagonally across a fair-skinned forearm, with a ring visible on the hand below.
Script quote along a forearm
Black and grey compass rose tattoo on a calf with the script words Not All Who Wander Are Lost arranged around it.
Compass rose and quote on a calf
Black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back of a woman seen from behind in a hot tub, reading I'm the hero of this story.
Quote tattoo across the upper back