Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Traditional style tattoo on an upper arm showing a heart shaped house with chimneys, trees, stars, a dotted constellation and the words home is where the heart is.
House-heart tattoo on upper arm
Black ink hand lettering on white reading IT IS well WITH MY soul, with tall capitals and flowing script words.
It is well with my soul lettering design
Black lettering reading Courage, dear heart in script with a solid bird silhouette above it, tattooed on the inner wrist.
Courage, dear heart script and bird on wrist
Black handwritten script reading Be true to who you are on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Be true to who you are handwritten script
Black serif lettering reading 'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past' across a forearm, with a beach and sea behind.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Two traditional style thigh tattoos showing R2-D2 and C-3PO, each with a banner scroll, roses and a sunflower, on a person's upper thighs.
R2-D2 and C-3PO thigh tattoos
Fine line black script reading I am enough on a shoulder, shown in a sepia photograph with a pearl pendant necklace.
I am enough script on a shoulder
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
Black script lettering reading God is within her, She will not fail, with a small arrow below, tattooed on a person's ribs in a Lettering style.
Script quote and arrow on ribs
Pencil sketch of a lettering flash design with ribbon banners reading Life is Short, Break the Rules, Kiss Slowly and Love Truly, drawn on graph paper.
Lettering flash with banners and quotes
Black script lettering reading Don't let the past make you're decisions, four today across a forearm, a lettering style tattoo.
Script quote on a forearm
Black script lettering of Jeremiah 29:11 across the thigh, in a fine, flowing handwriting style.
Jeremiah 29:11 script on a thigh
Fine line black lettering tattoo reading Curiosity often leads to trouble along a person's hip and upper thigh.
Quote tattoo along the hip
Mixed colour tattoo of Calvin and Hobbes lying in grass beside a dark tree on the inner upper arm, with the quote 'I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up'.
Calvin and Hobbes quote on upper arm
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' across the upper chest.
Fine line script reading this too shall pass
Black and grey script lettering reading Never regret anything that once made you smile across the ribs, with a hand resting above it.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'If fate should fail us then hope will see us through' with two black leaf sprigs, tattooed on the side of a ribcage.
Script quote with leaf sprigs on the ribs
Black serif lettering tattoo on a person's upper back reading what matters most is how well you walk through the fire, in a lettering style.
Quote tattoo across a shoulder blade
Fine line black script tattoo reading "Not all those who wander are lost" across the outer thigh, partly covered by a denim shirt.
Script quote along a thigh
Black script lettering quoting Proverbs 31:25 runs down the side of a person's ribs, with a pink bikini strap and grey top visible above.
Scripture quote along the ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading so it goes across the forearm, with a white pillow and blue flowers in the soft background.
So it goes script on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of two birds on a bare branch with a line of script, on the side of the torso.
Two birds on a branch with a quote
Realistic black and grey Cheshire Cat face wearing a top hat, with script quotes above and below, tattooed across a person's upper back.
Cheshire Cat and top hat quote on upper back
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
Fine line black script tattoo reading we're all mad here across the forearm.
We're all mad here script on a forearm
Black script lettering tattoo reading The pain you feel today is the strength you'll have Tomorrow, with flourishes, on the forearm.
Script quote on a forearm
Black outline tattoo of the words Don't dream it, be it in serif capitals with swirling flourishes, on the inside of a forearm near the wrist.
Don't dream it, be it quote on the forearm
Two forearms with fine line script lettering in black ink, one reading Together forever, never apart and the other maybe in distance but never in heart, with a small red heart.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Black and grey compass rose with a mandala-style border and script lettering reading to seek a Great Perhaps, on a shoulder and upper chest.
Compass rose and script quote on shoulder
Colour tattoo of a smiling sun above a black cloud with raindrops, with the words Stay strong beautiful on the side of the ribs.
Sun and cloud quote tattoo on ribs
Close photo of a black handwritten script tattoo reading 'i am because you are' with two dates below, on the inner forearm, in Lettering style.
Handwritten script with dates on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading One Life Live It across the side ribs, with the edge of a black lace bra visible above it.
One Life Live It script on ribs
Colour realism portrait tattoo of a man with slicked-back hair and a floral shirt, with a line of script below, on a forearm.
Portrait of a man in a floral shirt on a forearm
Colour galaxy nebula tattoo with small white stars on the upper arm, with black script lettering along the lower edge.
Galaxy nebula with script on upper arm
Black flowing script lettering reading I am my beloved's, and my beloved is Mine with looping flourishes on a white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Script lettering quote in black ink
Fine line black tattoos on a man's forearms showing a stack of book spines, quotation marks, lettering and small flying silhouettes.
Book stack, quotes and birds on forearms
Healed tattoo across a woman's upper back showing a shaded dandelion, drifting seeds turning into black birds, and the script quote "Inhale the future, exhale the past".
Dandelion seeds becoming birds with script on back
Black script tattoo reading 'i am not afraid to walk this world alone' on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Handwritten quote on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading a bachelorette party quote, with a small red lips motif, in a lettering style.
Bachelorette quote with red lips on a wrist
Close view of a fine line black script tattoo reading be still and know on the inner forearm, with a striped sleeve at the top of the frame.
Fine line script quote on inner forearm
Lettering design with the English lines Two Bodies, One Heart and Two Minds, One Soul above the same meaning in blue Tengwar elvish script.
Two Bodies, One Heart and Tengwar script lettering
Black pine tree tattoo above the script quote 'Bind my wandering heart to Thee' on the upper arm of a woman with wavy blonde hair and a grey t-shirt.
Pine tree and script quote on upper arm
Close up of fine script lettering reading "it can't rain all the time" tattooed across two fingers of a hand with pink nails.
Script quote across two fingers
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading There will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears, set across the ribs of a person whose face is not shown.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Colour forearm tattoo of a skull beside a woman with teal hair and red bows, with the typewriter-style quote 'And I know these dreams will be the death of me' above.
Skull and woman with quote on forearm
Black script lettering tattoo on a person's side ribs reading She is clothed in strength and dignity and she laughs without fear of the future, Proverbs 31:25.
Proverbs 31:25 script quote on ribs
Black and grey tattoo of wings above two crossed blades across the upper back, with script lettering on each side of the spine.
Winged blades and script on a back
Black line drawing of the words HIS, grace and IS SUFFICIENT in a mix of block capitals and flowing script, with horizontal rules, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
His grace is sufficient lettering design