Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Back view of a woman in an olive green open-back romper, showing a black script tattoo running vertically down her spine.
Vertical script tattoo down the back
Fine line black script reading 'everything was beautiful and nothing hurt' running diagonally down the inner forearm near the wrist.
Script quote on the inner forearm
Black lettering design with words arranged in a circle, reading 'My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never.'
Circular love quote lettering
Black script tattoo reading When You Wish Upon a Star with swirling flourishes across the upper chest, above a black strapless top.
"When You Wish Upon a Star" script on chest
Black ink lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, in a hand-lettered script style.
Quote lettering on the inner forearm
Black fine line script tattoo reading pain is inevitable suffering is optional on a bare calf above black strappy heels.
Script quote on a calf above black heels
Colour tattoo of a sunflower with the words You Are My Sunshine in script above it, on a person's shoulder.
Sunflower with script on a shoulder
Black handwritten script lettering reading grace that overcomes all on a white background, a lettering design with no body part shown.
Grace that overcomes all script lettering
Black handwritten script reading inhale confidence, exhale doubt, drawn in thin black ink on a white background.
Inhale confidence, exhale doubt script
Close photo of a two-line serif text tattoo on the inner upper arm, reading Everything will be okay in the end, in lettering style.
Two-line quote on the upper arm
Ink design of the Deathly Hallows symbol, a triangle, circle and vertical line, with ribbon banners reading The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death, shown as a flash drawing.
Deathly Hallows symbol with quote banners
Close view of a small fine line black script tattoo on the inner forearm, with a short phrase written in a handwritten style.
Fine line script quote on a forearm
Realistic chest tattoo of a shaded skull over a clock face with red splashes and the words too fast to live, too young to die, in black, grey and red.
Skull and clock across chest
Black ink tree with roots above a handwritten quote reading "i climbed the tree to see the world", tattooed on a wrist in a fine, shaded lettering style.
Tree and quote on the inner wrist
Black spiral tattoo of brick-like tiles on an upper arm, with the words There is no place like home curling around it and HOME set larger beneath.
Spiral brickwork tattoo with home lettering on upper arm
Black script lettering reading "And though she be but little, she is fierce" across the upper chest below the collarbone, in a fine lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black fine line lettering reading this too shall pass with a small arrow beneath it, tattooed on the neck behind the ear.
Quote and arrow behind the ear
Neo-traditional style tattoo on the outer thigh showing a pocket watch, two red roses, playing cards and a banner reading We're all mad here.
Pocket watch, roses and playing cards on a thigh
Fine line tattoo of a curling tree with small coloured leaves and the words YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE beneath it, placed on a person's upper back.
Fine line tree with quote on upper back
Black lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading WORDS FAIL, with the line MUSIC SPEAKS inverted beneath it, in a plain sans-serif typeface.
Words fail, music speaks lettering on forearm
Two photographs of script lettering tattooed along the soles of a pair of feet, reading When it rains, look for Rainbows and When it's dark, look for Stars.
Script quotes about rain and stars on feet
Two matching pink and black butterfly tattoos on the inner forearms, each framed by a curved script quote about sisterhood.
Matching butterfly tattoos with sister quote
Pencil drawing of a planchette-shaped tattoo design with a shaded eye, a sun and a crescent moon with a face, a crystal, and the words Speak to me no more.
Planchette with eye, sun and moon design
Black ink tattoo on a forearm showing a handwritten script quote above three open books with quill pens, in a line-drawn lettering style, placed on the inner forearm.
Quote and open books on a forearm
Two fine line script tattoos reading sunshine phrases, one along the ribs and one on the inner forearm, in black ink.
Matching sunshine script on ribs and forearm
Black ink script reading Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning, inside a stippled dotwork circle with two small stars, drawn as a lettering design.
Peter Pan quote in a dotted circle with stars
Black script lettering reading You'll never know dear, how much I love you runs across a bare upper arm.
Script quote on upper arm
Close-up of a small black lettering tattoo reading 'let it be' on a person's upper back, with a gloved hand pointing at it.
Small 'let it be' lettering on upper back
Dark blue lettering quote reading I belong with Erin's Bachelorette Party, with a green shamrock, on the inside of a wrist against green leaves.
Bachelorette party quote on wrist
Small black block capital lettering reading BE BRAVE, set diagonally on the inner forearm in a lettering style.
Be Brave lettering on a forearm
Black ink lettering design reading I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul, with a sunburst above and flourished script, on a textured off-white background.
Lettering quote: master of my fate
Two matching infinity-shaped script lettering tattoos on forearms, reading a mother's love is forever and of a daughter, with LOVE picked out in blue.
Matching infinity quote tattoos on forearms
Black script lettering reading Stay Strong above a semicolon and My Love, tattooed on the upper arm of a person wearing a grey top.
Stay Strong semicolon lettering on an arm
Black and grey neo-traditional flash design of a woman in profile holding a rose, with banner lettering reading LUST is the THORN and LOVE is the ROSE.
Profile woman with rose and banner
Black linework flash design of a horned crescent above an arch with radiating V shapes and a horizontal base line, with a handwritten quote beneath it.
Horned arch symbol with quote
Black script lettering reading "Too Legit 2 Quit" on reddish skin, in a lettering style with the body part not visible.
"Too Legit 2 Quit" script lettering
Fine line script tattoo of the words Take a chance they don't come much bigger than this across the inner wrist, shown in a sepia photo.
Script quote tattoo on the wrist
Black script reading Mischief Managed with a trail of black footprints running down the side of a ribcage, in a lettering style.
Mischief Managed script and footprints on ribs
Black script lettering tattoo on a person's ribs reading Let all that you do be done in love, 1 Corinthians 16:14.
Scripture script tattoo on ribs
Colour and black ink tattoo of a dandelion, music notes, two orange butterflies and a quote in script across a woman's upper back and shoulder.
Dandelion and music notes with script on a shoulder
Black and grey engraved-style anchor design wrapped in rope, with smoky shading behind and a quote beneath it, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Engraved anchor with rope and quote
Close photo of fine line black script reading 'el exito es la mejor venganza' across the skin of the hip, below a dark garment.
Spanish script quote on the hip
Black and grey flash sheet of Harry Potter themed designs, including the Deathly Hallows symbol, round glasses, a lightning bolt and several script phrases, with no body placement shown.
Harry Potter themed tattoo flash sheet
Black lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading "What don't kill you'll make you more strong", with a geometric four-pointed star at the wrist.
Quote and star on a forearm
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading I am enough the way I am across a person's upper back near the shoulder.
Script quote across upper back
Traditional style colour tattoo of an anatomical heart framed by yellow banner scrolls with lettering, on a leg.
Anatomical heart with banner scroll on a leg
Black handwritten script lettering on a white background reading Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, with The Beatles written beneath, suitable as a lettering design.
Script quote from The Beatles lyric
Black lettering tattoo on the inner forearm reading "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul", in a plain serif style.
Two-line quote tattoo on a forearm