Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Two traditional-style tattoos side by side: a black and grey Darth Vader head with a red banner reading BENTLEY on the left, and a colourful heart with flowers, a pink bow and a ZOEY banner on the
Darth Vader and floral heart tattoos with banners
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the back with a bold cross, a flock of bird silhouettes and a script quote.
Cross, birds and script quote on the back
Black and grey traditional style tattoo of a crouching hare with a small orange eye and the words WHAT IS, IS WHAT MUST BE arched above it, on the side of the body.
Crouching hare with arched quote
Fine line black tattoo of a circular geometric design with the words Hello, Sweetie below it, on the upper back of a person with pink hair.
Circular script design and quote on upper back
Black fine line script reading I hope you think of me across the side of the ribs, with a grey jumper partly covering the skin above it.
Handwritten quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of the phrase Stuff your eyes with wonder in a typewriter-style font on the upper back.
Quote reading Stuff your eyes with wonder
Black script lettering design on a white background, with Arabic calligraphy above the English words "If it's meant to be, It will be."
Arabic and English quote lettering design
Black and grey and colour tattoo on a person's upper back showing a yellow rose with green leaves, three black birds and the quote about the most poetical topic in the world.
Yellow rose, birds and quote on upper back
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, with swirling flourishes, running along the outer foot near the ankle.
Quote script along the outer foot
Black and grey mandala-filled Minnie Mouse head tattoo with a red bow on the stomach, with a 'There is no progress' script quote above it.
Mandala Minnie Mouse on the stomach
Black script lettering reading Don't be Delicate, Be Vast and Brilliant, with small flying birds trailing across a forearm, in lettering style.
Script quote with birds on a forearm
Black fine line script reading I will see you again, with three small bird silhouettes above it, tattooed on a person's upper back.
"I will see you again" script with three birds
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading Daddy's little girl across the wrist and back of a hand, with a jewelled ring on another finger.
Script phrase on the back of a wrist
Two matching fine line script quote tattoos in black ink sit along the collarbone and upper shoulder of two people, shown in a four-panel collage.
Matching script quotes along the collarbone
Black and white photo of a foot with a fine script lettering tattoo reading Dance like nobody's watching running along the side of the foot.
Script quote tattoo along a foot
Black lettering tattoo of a crescent moon with the words I love you to the moon and back and small stars, on the inside of a raised wrist.
Crescent moon lettering tattoo on a wrist
Black ink drawing of a swallow above a speech-bubble shape containing the handwritten quote about desire and fire, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Swallow and quote design on paper
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading if i could fly on a shoulder, with a striped top at the edge of the frame.
Fine line script quote on the shoulder
Black and grey sans-serif lettering reading 'you get what anyone gets, you get a lifetime' across a person's upper back beside a tank top strap.
Quote lettering on upper back
Red handwritten script reading I must not tell lies across the back of a fist, a fine line lettering tattoo on the hand.
Handwritten quote on the back of a hand
Two stacked photos of black script lettering on a forearm, one reading I'll love you forever and I'll like you for always, the other reading As long as I'm living and My baby you'll be.
Script love quotes on a forearm
Black handwritten script lettering reading I'll keep you safe, you keep me wild, drawn as a tattoo design on a plain white background.
Script quote: I'll keep you safe, you keep me wild
Black and grey fine line infinity symbol tattoo with the script words Curiouser and Curiouser and playing card suit shapes, shown on skin.
Infinity script with playing card suits
Black and grey photo of two forearms, each with a line of serif lettering tattooed on it: a quote about understanding and destroying oneself on the left, and one about fixing oneself on the right.
Two serif quotes on both forearms
Black and grey photograph of a fine cursive script tattoo running along the inner upper arm, with the person's face not shown.
Cursive script quote along an upper arm
Black fine line script tattoo on the inner wrist reading Live by the sun above Love by the moon, with a horizontal arrow under each line.
Live by the sun and love by the moon wrist script
Black ink tattoo of the Deathly Hallows triangle symbol above a lettered quote on the inner forearm.
Deathly Hallows symbol and quote on a forearm
Black script lettering reading My Story Isn't Over, with a large solid black semicolon above and below it, on a plain white background as a lettering tattoo design.
Semicolon with My Story Isn't Over script
Pencil sketch design of a heart filled with rib-like lines, with the words hearts are wild creatures, that's why our ribs are cages curving around it.
Heart rib cage pencil sketch with quote
Black serif lettering reading "but without the dark, we'd never see the stars" tattooed across the upper back below a dark strap.
Quote tattoo across the upper back
Back view of a person with a hair updo of rose-like braids, showing a small fine line script lettering tattoo across the upper back.
Small script line on upper back
Black block lettering reading I'VE BEEN MOVING MOUNTAINS THAT I ONCE HAD TO CLIMB, with a fine line mountain range and an orange sun, on a forearm in a lettering style tattoo.
Mountain quote and sun on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading Dance like nobody across the top of a foot, with a smaller line of writing near the toes.
Dance like nobody script on a foot
Black and red outlined heart tattoo on a forearm, with a black heartbeat trace and the script words Until I see you again.
Heartbeat heart with script quote on forearm
Black serif lettering reading Words, are our most inexhaustible source of magic, tattooed in a fine line lettering style across the upper back.
Serif quote tattoo on upper back
Two flash designs of script lettering reading I Love you more and I Love you most, each with a looping line and a small green heart.
I Love you more and I Love you most designs
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'this too shall pass' on the inner forearm, in a Lettering style.
Fine line script quote on a forearm
Black handwritten script reading Inhale the future, exhale the past, drawn as a fine line tattoo design on a white background.
Inhale the future, exhale the past script
Black and grey photograph of a lettering tattoo reading Breathe deeply, love madly, live fully in flowing script down the side of a torso.
Script quote running down the side ribs
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading she believed she could so she did, set vertically along the ribs of a person in a dark top and lace bra.
Typewriter quote tattoo along the ribs
Black infinity symbol tattoo on skin with the words 'i feel infinite' set in a typewriter-style font inside the loops.
Infinity symbol with 'i feel infinite' text
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading What a catch across the upper chest, with a dark top visible at the top of the frame.
What a catch script on upper chest
Black and grey photograph of the words Those who don't believe in magic will never find it tattooed in a typewriter-style font on pale skin, likely the forearm.
Typewriter quote tattoo on forearm
Back view of a woman with an upswept auburn bun and a black sequined low-back dress, showing a fine-line script lettering tattoo across the upper back below the neck.
Script quote across the upper back
Black fine line script tattoo reading "i carry your heart" along the upper back and shoulder of a woman with dark wavy hair.
Script quote across upper back
Black script lettering reading Once you go black you never go back, above an outline map of Africa with I heart AFRICA inside it, tattooed across a person's upper back.
Africa map and script quote on upper back
Two matching forearm tattoos in black ink: a ship's wheel with the words 'be the one to guide me' and an anchor with 'but never let me down'.
Ship's wheel and anchor with matching quote tattoos
Black serif lettering reading take a breath and be strong across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Take a breath and be strong on upper back