Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black fine-line lettering reading a quote, with two small roses and a colour sugar skull tattoo on a thigh.
Quote text and sugar skull on a thigh
Black typewriter-style lettering reading the heart of life is good on the upper arm, with a red and purple checked shirt beside it.
Typewriter quote on the upper arm
Black, uneven hand-drawn block lettering on a lower leg reads 'Don't let them see you're afraid', in a rough lettering style on the calf.
'Don't let them see you're afraid' lettering on a calf
Black fine script reading Love me for who i am runs across the upper chest, with a small butterfly in the middle and a shaded butterfly on the shoulder.
Script quote and butterflies on the shoulder
Fine line black script lettering in French across a forearm, with a silver bracelet and a vintage map behind.
Handwritten French script on a forearm
Black flowing script lettering reading À toi, pour toujours on a plain white background, a lettering design suited to a fine script tattoo.
French script quote lettering design
Fine line black lettering tattoo forming a heart outline on the inner forearm, with the words set along the curve of the heart.
Heart outline of lettering on a forearm
Close-up photo of the words Fairest of them all in black cursive script across the upper chest, with the first letter F in a larger flourished style.
Fairest of them all script on collarbone
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
Traditional tattoo on a forearm showing an eye in a dark shape, red roses and a banner reading Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Eye, roses and banner quote on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm showing a sewing machine above the words 'As ye sew, so shall ye rip', in a lettering and traditional style.
As ye sew sewing machine tattoo on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo reading she believed she could so she did, set in a typewriter-style font along the side of the ribs.
Quote lettering along the ribs
Black script lettering reading Dance like the Maiden, Laugh like the Mother, Think like the Crone, with a small pentacle below, drawn as a tattoo design on a cream background.
Maiden, mother and crone script lettering with pentacle
Black and grey shaded roses with Never give up Never back down script tattooed across a shoulder and upper back.
Never give up script with roses on shoulder
Black and grey lettering tattoo of poem lines in a typewriter-style font running across the inner forearm.
Poem lines tattooed across the forearm
Black fine line script reading He walks with me beside a small fish outline, tattooed on the side of a foot.
Fish symbol and script quote on foot
Black and grey flash design of a shaded feather with the script words One day I'll fly away running diagonally across it.
Feather with One day I'll fly away script
Black lettering tattoo reading Too Weird To Live Too Rare To Die with small bird silhouettes, placed on the side of the ribs.
Too weird to live quote on ribs
Black fine line script lettering reading stinate, headstrong girl across the ribs, with grey fabric draped over the top of the frame.
Script quote along the ribs
Black script lettering runs along the inside of both feet, with flip-flop straps crossing the toes, in a fine line lettering style.
Script quote tattooed along both feet
Fine line script tattoo reading "one day at a time" in black ink across the inner wrist, with the hand open and fingers visible.
One day at a time script on a wrist
Black script lettering reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, with dark footprints, tattooed across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote and footprints across upper back
Fine line black sun outline with lettering on the left foot and a crescent moon outline with script on the right foot, both placed near the ankle.
Sun and moon outlines with script on two feet
Fine line black script tattoo reading I follow the rabbit across the outer upper thigh of a person in a white top and shorts.
Script quote along a thigh
Colour tattoo of a blue crescent moon with yellow stars and clouds beside script lettering reading She was like the MOON, on the side of a ribcage in a lettering style.
Crescent moon and quote on the ribs
Black script tattoo reading lights will guide you home across the upper back and shoulder of a person with their head turned away.
Script quote across a shoulder and upper back
Black ink drawing on paper of two semicolons with the hand-lettered words OUR STORIES and WILL NEVER END, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Semicolon with hand-lettered quote design
Fine line black tattoo of a small lion outline beside the script words Remember who you are on the top of a foot, with a beaded anklet.
Lion outline and script quote on foot
Black script lettering tattooed across the ribs in a curved, stacked quotation, in a lettering style on a side torso.
Script quotation along the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'to love another person is to see the face of God' with a small cross, tattooed across the ribs.
Script quote with cross on ribs
Black fine line script running along the upper arm and forearm, with a compass rose tattoo on the ribs, shown on a woman with her arms raised.
Compass rose and script tattoos on arm and side
Black fine line tattoo of a dandelion dissolving into flying birds, with script lettering running along the upper shoulder and chest.
Dandelion seeds becoming birds with script on shoulder
Black and grey realism tattoo of a bandana-masked banknote portrait with TRUST NO ONE and a script quote on a forearm.
Masked banknote portrait and script on forearm
Two-panel photo of fine line black script on a side ribcage reading we loved with a love that was more than love, with a small butterfly beside the word love.
Script quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo reading There's no place like HOME on the inner wrist, with a large looping script H.
There's no place like home lettering on wrist
Two bare feet with fine line black script tattoos on the inner sides reading because of them I give my all and because of her I will not fall, plus a small red rose on the left ankle.
Script quotes and a rose on two feet
Black handwritten script tattoo reading Gone to market, Be back soon, Love, Pig, across the top of a foot in a lettering style.
Handwritten quote across the top of a foot
Black lettering tattoo of a quote set in short lines running diagonally across the side of a bare back and ribs, with a blue-tinted photo.
Lettering quote along the side of the ribs
Black ink flash sheet showing three Deathly Hallows symbols with curved script quotes, and a pair of winged designs flanking the word Always.
Deathly Hallows symbols with script lettering
Black fine-line lettering reading "not all those who wander are lost" runs along the inner forearm.
Quote lettering along a forearm
Black fine line script reading I hope you dance across the top of a bare foot, with silver glitter polish on the toenails.
I hope you dance script on a foot
Black ink semicolon above the words My story isn't over in script lettering on the ankle.
Semicolon and quote on an ankle
Two thin black script tattoos on a person's forearms: a short line of non-Latin script on the left arm and a cursive English quote on the right.
Two forearm script tattoos
Two black script quote tattoos on forearms, reading For them I'll risk it all and Because of her I will not fall, in a fine line style.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Close-up of black typewriter-style lettering reading "the past is practice" across a bare torso, placed on the ribs.
"the past is practice" lettering on ribs
Black lettering tattoo reading YOU ARE WHAT YOU LOVE NOT WHO LOVES YOU, with a small crown at each end, running vertically down a lower leg.
Crown and quote tattoo down the shin
Black script tattoo reading "My story isn't over" with a large semicolon, on the inside of an ankle.
Semicolon and quote on an ankle
Fine line black script lettering reading 'We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us' tattooed along a forearm.
Script quote along a forearm