Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black lettering tattoo of the quote 'No matter how far life pulls you back eventually you move forward' with a grey arrow across the ribs.
Quote and arrow tattoo on the ribs
Black script lettering reading I'll rise like the break of dawn, with a soft grey shaded cloud above it, tattooed on a forearm near the wrist.
Script quote about dawn on inner wrist
Black fine line script lettering reading NOT all who WANDER are LOST, placed on the lower leg near the ankle.
Quote lettering on a lower leg
Black handwritten script reading 'This too shall pass.' on a plain white background, a lettering design suited to a fine line tattoo.
Handwritten 'This too shall pass' lettering
Black script lettering tattooed on the inner wrists of two hands, reading It's Only Forever and Not Long At All.
Script quote tattoos on both wrists
Fine line script lettering reading Dare to Begin, drawn in black ink on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Dare to Begin script lettering design
Black script lettering tattoo on the ribs reading Without struggle, There is no progress, shown beside a pink top.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading These violent delights have violent ends runs along a forearm.
Handwritten quote script along a forearm
Black line drawing flash design of an anatomical heart cradled by a hand, with the lettering Do not hold my heart unless you want to hold my hand.
Anatomical heart held in a hand
Black script lettering tattoo reading every day is the start of something beautiful across the upper chest, near the collarbone, with a grey patterned fleece worn open.
Script quote across the upper chest
Fine line black tattoo of a treble and bass clef forming a heart, with the script words Where words fail, Music speaks below it.
Clef heart and quote tattoo on skin
Black script lettering reading sic parvis magna across a man's upper back near the shoulder, with framed pictures on the wall behind.
Script lettering across a shoulder
Two palms face up showing small black typewriter-style lettering on the inner wrists, reading like the wind and i am free.
Two wrist quotes in black lettering
Black fine line tattoo of a cartoon owl on a branch with the script words owl love you forever along the side of an ankle and foot.
Owl on a branch with script quote on foot
Black script quote and a red watercolour-style flame with a smiling face on the ribs, with small fuzzy black soot shapes beside the text.
Quote and smiling flame on the ribs
Large geometric tattoo across a person's upper back with concentric rings, dotted lines, stars and a lettered quote, in black with pink and blue watercolour washes.
Geometric back piece with stars and quote
Pencil and ink sketch of a small girl with her hair in a bun, holding balloon strings behind her back, with the words Sometimes you have to let go, to be able to move on around a circle.
Girl releasing balloons with circular quote sketch
Black lettering tattoo reading 'nōsce tē ipsum' in a blackletter-style script across the inner forearm, above the wrist, with beaded and braided bracelets.
Latin lettering 'nōsce tē ipsum' on forearm
Black script lettering reading The Pain You Feel Today Is The Strength You'll Have Tomorrow, with a blue awareness ribbon, tattooed on a person's side ribs.
Script quote and blue ribbon on ribs
Black fine line lettering in a French script runs vertically down the centre of a woman's upper back, above a strappy beige top.
French script down the upper back
Black fine line bird silhouettes and lettering tattoos across a woman's upper back, including the word freedom.
Bird and word tattoos across a back
Fine line tattoo design of a meditating figure in lotus position with a small flower at the chest, above the handwritten words Whatever comes, let it come, and so on.
Meditating figure with lotus and quote
Black script lettering reading 'She believed she could so she did' with a small flourish and comma, tattooed across the top of a foot.
Script quote across the top of a foot
Colour tattoo of a blue crescent moon with clouds and yellow stars beside a script quote, on the side of the ribs, in a lettering style.
Crescent moon and quote on the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'Not all those who wander are lost' across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo across upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading "we're all mad here." in a typewriter-style serif font, running across the inside of a forearm.
"We're all mad here" quote on forearm
Fine line black script reading in a world of my own runs across a forearm beside an outlined daisy tattoo.
Script quote and daisy on a forearm
Black and grey fine line tattoo of two outline roses with cursive script across a woman's shoulder and upper chest.
Outline roses and script on a shoulder
Red line drawing of a heart with a sprig of three flowers and a black script quote beneath, a flash design with no visible body placement.
Heart with flower sprig and script quote
Black and grey photograph of the words NORMAL PEOPLE SCARE ME in block lettering tattooed on the inner wrist, with leather and metal bracelets worn below it.
Normal people scare me quote on wrist
Handwritten black ink script on white paper reading I exist as I am, that is enough, with an attribution beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Handwritten quote in script
Black script lettering reading "and in the end we will always have each other" across three lines on the side of the ribs.
Handwritten script quote on the side ribs
Two-panel photo of a small solid black footprint tattoo on the inner wrist, with the right panel under UV light showing fluorescent blue lettering on the same wrist.
Small footprints tattoo on wrist, shown under UV light
Black and grey fine line script tattoo of a three line quote on the ribs, with a hand resting above it.
Script quote along the ribs
Pencil drawing of flourished script lettering reading Generic Life Advice You've Heard Before, sketched on grid paper beside a black brush pen.
Script lettering design on grid paper
Traditional-style tattoo of a red anatomical heart pierced by arrows, with a banner reading WE ARE NOT OUR FAILURES, on the upper arm.
Heart with arrows and banner
Black ink line drawing of a circular mountain landscape with pine trees, cottages, a winding path and a moon, framed by the words I could have lived a million different lives.
Circular mountain landscape with quote
Fine black and grey script reading and they lived happily ever after, with faded butterflies and swirls, on the back of a woman's neck.
Happily ever after script on the neck
Fine line black script tattoo reading don't let your fears win along the inner upper arm.
Script quote on upper arm
Black line drawing of an eye above stacked chevron arrows, with the handwritten quote 'My eyes are open to the path I am on' beneath it.
Eye above stacked chevrons with quote
Close-up of a black typewriter-style lettering tattoo reading I'm a recovering undercover overlover, placed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Typewriter quote across the upper back
Two side-by-side photographs of black script lettering tattoos reading I Love her or I Love him, then til death do us part, with a small red heart beside the second.
Matching script lettering tattoos with a heart
Woman seated with her back to the camera, showing a thin black vertical script tattoo of text running down her spine, in a lettering style on the back.
Vertical script tattoo down the back
Black fine line angel wing beside the script words Angels never leave, They're always at your side, tattooed on the side of the torso.
Angel wing and script quote on the side
Black and grey tattoo of a dandelion releasing seeds that turn into birds, with fine script lettering beneath it, on a person's back.
Dandelion seeds becoming birds with script quote
Two matching colour tattoos on a pair of limbs, each with script lettering, a swirl of stars, a crescent moon and an orange and blue heart, placed on the calf.
Matching lettering and star tattoos on two limbs
Black script lettering of a four-line quote tattooed across the inner wrist and lower forearm.
Script quote across the inner wrist
Colour tattoo of a blue TARDIS filled with pink and purple galaxy shading, with a quote arcing above and below it, on the outer thigh.
TARDIS in a galaxy wash with quote on thigh