Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black script lettering reading Family doesn't end in blood runs diagonally down the inner forearm in a fine line tattoo.
Family quote in script on a forearm
Close photo of a black lettering tattoo on the inner upper arm, reading three lines of italic text in a plain serif typeface.
Three-line quote on an upper arm
Black and grey realistic scroll tattoo with the lettering you can run from your problems but you can't run from yourself, on the side of the ribs.
Scroll with quote on the side
Black script lettering reading "I can go the distance" runs across the top of a foot and ankle.
Script quote "I can go the distance" on ankle
Fine line black arrow tattoo with the script words She will be free running vertically down the nape of a person's neck.
Arrow with script down the nape of the neck
Fine line black script lettering reading with pain comes strength, placed along the side of the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Black and grey script tattoo reading With pain comes strength across the upper back near the shoulder blade, photographed in black and white.
Script quote across upper back
Black silhouettes of Peter Pan characters and stars forming an infinity symbol with the words Never Grow Up, tattooed on the ribs.
Peter Pan silhouettes in an infinity symbol
Black and grey photograph of the words One Life One Chance in cursive script tattooed across a person's upper back, with the head and hair cropped at the top of the frame.
One Life One Chance script on upper back
Black line drawing of the handwritten script phrase Do not fear, for I am with you, with the reference Isaiah 41:10 below, as a lettering design.
Do not fear, for I am with you script
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading 'things are shaping up to be pretty odd' along the inner forearm.
Typewriter-style quote on a forearm
Black fine line script tattoo reading 'I will fear no evil for you are with me' across the upper back near the shoulder.
Handwritten script quote on upper back
Black hand-lettered script reading Stop and breathe on a white background, a flash design with no body placement shown.
Stop and breathe lettering design
Black fine line script lettering arranged in a heart shape on skin, forming a handwritten quote.
Heart-shaped script quote tattoo
Black handwritten French script tattooed along the upper arm of a woman with her arm raised, lying on white bedding.
French script quote on upper arm
Black and grey tattoo of a seated elephant playing a small keyboard with musical notes, above the words love the life you live, on a forearm.
Elephant and quote on an arm
Black lettering tattoo reading don't panic in a typewriter-style font across the inner wrist of a forearm, with green crystal beads in the foreground.
Don't panic lettering on an inner wrist
Fine line black script quote tattooed along the side of a ribcage, reading life is not measured by the number of breaths we take.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Black ink flash sheet of Shakespeare quotes in script and typewriter lettering, with a small skull and a wreath design.
Shakespeare quote lettering flash sheet
Forearm tattoo of red lips biting a black triangle, set within a sunburst of fine lines and a block-text quote, with soft watercolour washes.
Biting lips and triangle on a forearm
Fine line lettering reading 'this is the beat of my heart' above a heartbeat trace tattoo on the inner wrist, shown in pale ink.
Heartbeat line and quote on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo reading ELATION, ELEGANCE, EXALTATION and I LOVE SUPREME on a forearm, with a person in zebra-print shorts holding a cigarette in front of a brick wall.
Four-line text tattoo on a forearm
Black fine line tattoo of an anchor entwined with an infinity symbol, with the script words refuse to sink written beneath it.
Anchor and infinity symbol with 'refuse to sink'
Black fine-line script tattoo reading walk by faith, with the reference 2Cor.5:7 beneath it, on the side of an ankle and heel.
Walk by faith script on the ankle
Colour tattoo of a pink lotus flower with a yellow centre above black script lettering, on the upper arm, in a realism and lettering style.
Pink lotus with script quote on upper arm
Colour tattoo on the side of the ribs of a bare tree with roots wrapped in ribbon banners, with a heart at the base and a name on a banner.
Bare tree, roots and heart with ribbon banners on ribs
Black and grey script lettering reading two lines of verse across a person's upper back, over the shoulder blade area.
Two lines of script lettering across upper back
Black and grey ink flash design of a skull resting in a curved shell-like form, framed by wheat sprigs, with the word Virgo and a quotation beneath it.
Skull and wheat sprigs in a shell, Virgo design
Close photo of the words The best is yet to come in thin black script tattooed diagonally along the inner forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
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
Red and black blackletter letter with the script phrase Your Pain Is A Gift tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote and blackletter letter on upper back
Close photograph of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' across the collarbone near the shoulder, with a white top below.
Script quote 'this too shall pass' on collarbone
Black script lettering reading Go and try you'll never break me, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Black lettering reading Not all those who wander are lost, with two small bird silhouettes, tattooed on a woman's upper back near the neck.
Quote and two birds on upper back
Botanical tattoo across the upper back showing five plant stages growing from seed to sunflower, with the words How strange it is to be anything at all beneath.
Five-stage plant growth with a quote on upper back
Black line flash design of a spiral shell built from brick-like segments, with the words There is no place like HOME running along the curve.
Spiral shell with 'There is no place like home'
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background, reading a quote about ink and breath, styled as a lettering design.
Handwritten script quote about ink and breath
Black script lettering reading "I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell" across a patch of skin in a sepia-toned photo.
Script quote tattoo on skin
Black and grey diamond-shaped tattoo on a limb showing a flying saucer over mountains and pine trees, with the words I want to believe along the left edge.
UFO over mountains in a diamond frame
Black ink script quote reading Through Dangers Untold and Hardships Unnumbered on the inner wrist, beside a white dogwood flower on stone.
Quote on the inner wrist beside a dogwood flower
Pink rose tattoo in a stained-glass style with green leaves and the script words Tale as old as time, on the side of a torso.
Stained glass rose with script on the side
Black and grey script lettering reading "one step at a time" across the top of a foot, in a lettering style, placed on the foot.
"One step at a time" script on a foot
Black script quote reading 'Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live' on one forearm, with a small outline heart on the other forearm.
Script quote and heart on forearms
Black handwritten script lettering reading Just a girl who decided to go for it, on a plain off-white background with a hatched strip across the top.
Script quote, Just a girl who decided to go for it
Black script tattoo reading 'To have faith, is to fly' above a solid black silhouette of a flying figure, on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote and flying silhouette on a wrist
Black and grey fine line script reading No Regrets, tattooed on a person's back in a close, softly lit photo.
No Regrets script lettering on skin
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
Black script lettering reading live without regrets, with a swirled flourish beneath, across the upper back.
Live without regrets script across upper back