Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black hand-drawn script lettering of the lyric Whisper words of wisdom, let it be, with The Beatles beneath, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Whisper words of wisdom lettering
Black script lettering reading if you can't live longer, live deeper, with a small aeroplane silhouette below, shown as a tattoo design on a sepia background with no body part visible.
Script quote with small aeroplane design
Flash design drawing of ornate black script reading And Though She Be But Little She Is Fierce, framed by dark red roses with drips, with no body placement shown.
Script quote with red roses flash design
Fine line black script quote running across the top of a foot near the ankle, with a small coloured stack of books beside the ankle bone.
Script quote and books on a foot
Colour traditional tattoo on a calf of a rose over crossed baseball bats, with barbed wire above and the words Life's Swinging Hard and But I'm Swinging Harder.
Rose and crossed bats with barbed wire
Black and grey lettering tattoo in cursive script with flourishes along a woman's side ribs, above black lace underwear.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Black and grey photo of the words So it goes and a small starburst tattooed on the inner forearm, in a clean fine line lettering style.
So it goes lettering and starburst on a forearm
Black and grey realism tattoo of a cowboy on a barrel racing horse, with the words Courage is being scared, across a woman's upper back.
Barrel racer and horse with quote on upper back
Black ink tattoo of the words Only the good die young above a flock of small birds on the ribs, with a pink bra visible at the top of the frame.
Script quote and birds on ribs
Black and grey forearm tattoo of mountains and a sun inside a circle, with a handwritten quote above and around it about going somewhere and having room for one more troubled soul.
Mountain and sun quote on a forearm
Black cursive script reading Life goes on sits above a thin black heartbeat trace on the inner forearm.
Life goes on script with heartbeat line
Two forearms side by side with matching black script lettering tattoos on the inner forearm, reading Together forever never apart and Maybe in distance but never in heart.
Matching quote tattoos on forearms
Two matching colour cartoon tattoos on legs: Winnie the Pooh holding a red heart balloon on the calf, and Piglet holding a purple heart balloon on the ankle, each with a short quote.
Pooh and Piglet heart balloon tattoos
Black script tattoo reading I am not afraid, I was born to do this, across the inner forearm, with a silver skull bracelet on the wrist.
Script quote tattoo on forearm
Black and grey script lettering of the Serenity Prayer running diagonally across skin on the side of the ribs.
Serenity Prayer script tattoo along the ribs
Pencil sketch of cursive script lettering arranged in a circle reading what goes around comes around, drawn on paper with no body placement visible.
Circular script lettering sketch
Close-up of a black lettering tattoo reading May the Force be with you in bold sans-serif capitals across the inner forearm near the wrist.
May the Force quote on a forearm
Back-angled photo of a green shaded fish scale tattoo on a person's ribs, with a fine black script quote above it.
Green scale pattern and script on ribs
Black lettering tattoo of a quote in a serif typeface running along a forearm that rests on grass.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Two inner wrists side by side showing black script tattoos reading Sometimes you fall and before you fly, with two bird silhouettes and a small red heart shape.
Matching wrist quote tattoos with birds
Black script lettering reading We accept the love we think we deserve across a forearm, in a lettering style.
Script quote along the forearm
Pen drawing of an infinity symbol with the words live life with no regrets written in thin fine line script, shown as a tattoo design on white paper.
Infinity symbol with 'live life with no regrets' script
Black fine line script tattoo reading "Fate fell short" on the upper chest near the collarbone, with a navy polka dot top visible at the edge of the frame.
"Fate fell short" script on upper chest
Black lettering tattoo reading Think happy thoughts on the back of a woman's neck, below blonde braided hair, in a lettering style.
Think happy thoughts lettering on the nape
Black and white flash design of a stag head silhouette with hand-lettered text reading We will forever be wild and free over a row of pine trees.
Stag silhouette with lettering and pine trees
Black and white photo of fine line script reading Just believe on the inner wrist, with a silver beaded bracelet above it.
Just believe script on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Never a victim, Forever a fighter across the lower back above the waistband of jeans.
Script quote across the lower back
Black fine line script reading cute but psycho, but cute, tattooed along the side of a ribcage below a black lace garment edge.
Script quote on the ribs
Black and white photo of a black script quote tattoo running along the upper thigh, partly covered by a hand holding dark fabric.
Script quote along the upper thigh
Hand-drawn script lettering reading Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together over a pink watercolour lip shape, shown as a design drawing on paper.
Lipstick quote in script lettering
Black lettering tattoo reading Because This Moment Simply Is in a serif typeface across the forearm.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black lettering and an anchor tattoo on the side of a foot near the ankle, with the script words We shall never drift apart running along the skin.
Anchor and script quote on a foot
Fine line black script tattoo reading 'The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow' across the lower back, above a grey waistband.
Script quote tattoo across the lower back
Colour lettering tattoo reading Do what you LOVE What you do, with a yellow basketball replacing the O, a blue butterfly and a music note, in a mixed black and colour style.
Do what you love lettering with basketball
Black lettering tattoo in a serif typeface reading 'There is a light that never goes out', running diagonally along the inner forearm.
Quote tattoo along a forearm
Black and grey fine line script reading nothing gold can stay with a small flower sketch, tattooed on the upper back beside the shoulder blade, with hair falling across the skin.
Nothing gold can stay script on upper back
Two palms turned up showing a small black fine line arrow with feathered fletching, a single eye, and the words THE DEVIL WON'T KEEP TIL MORNING in black lettering.
Arrow, eye and quote on palms
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading werde, der du bist across the inner forearm, on a plastic-covered table.
Small German text on the forearm
Black ink handwritten script on white paper reading "don't let idiots ruin your day" in three lines, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
Handwritten lettering: don't let idiots ruin your day
Black lettering tattoo reading I'm the hero of this story across the side of the torso, above a grey fabric top, in a sepia-toned photo.
Quote tattoo reading I'm the hero of this story
Four shaded footprints in brown and black beside a script quote reading when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you, tattooed on skin.
Four footprints with a script quote
Black script lettering tattoo reading Fall down seven times, stand up eight, on the side of a ribcage.
Script quote on the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered' across the upper thigh.
Script quote across the upper thigh
Fine line tattoo of the words Dance alone to the beat of your heart in black script on the inner wrist, with a red heartbeat line forming a heart.
Script quote with red heartbeat on wrist
Black silhouette design of three swallows in flight with the script words every little thing gonna be alright, on a plain white background.
Three swallows in flight with script quote
Black and grey feather quill with shaded plumes above the script words Who will tell the story of your life, tattooed on the side of the ribs.
Feather quill and script quote on the ribs
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading wonderfully made across the upper thigh, with the start of the phrase partly hidden by a pink garment.
Script quote across a thigh
Black and grey tattoo of the words She believed she could so she did in script, beside a shaded feather on the forearm.
Feather and quote on a forearm