Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Colour tattoo of a large hare and a small hare under a crescent moon, with the words I love you right up to the moon and back in script, on a person's upper back.
Hares, crescent moon and quote on upper back
Black script lettering reading There is Beauty in Brokenness across the collarbone, in a fine line lettering style.
Script quote across the collarbone
Fine black French script tattooed vertically down the centre of a woman's upper back, below her hair bun.
Vertical French script down the spine
Black handwritten-style lettering tattoo on the upper arm reading a quote in quotation marks, with an attribution line beneath it, in a lettering style.
Handwritten quote tattoo on upper arm
Colour tattoo on a thigh showing a peeled banana wearing a top hat and monocle, with the script words I find this attire appealing, in a traditional style.
Peeled banana in a top hat on a thigh
Black fine line script tattoo running down the outer upper arm of a person wearing a black lace bralette.
Script lettering along upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo reading what if you fly on the side of a torso, with pink lace lingerie along the bottom edge of the image.
Fine line script reading what if you fly
Black script tattoo reading "but without the dark, we'd never see the stars" across the upper thigh, in a lettering style.
Quote script on a thigh
Black fine line script and symbols on the inner wrist, including a lightning bolt, a platform 9 3/4 sign and a Deathly Hallows triangle.
Fine line quote and symbols on a wrist
Black and grey daisy tattoo with a fine line script quote trailing from its stem, sitting on the lower back above a pair of jeans.
Daisy and script quote on lower back
Fine line black tattoo of a flower wreath around the words Be Kind to yourself and a small heart, on the inner wrist.
Be Kind to Yourself wreath on wrist
Black fine line script tattoo reading A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, with small birds beside it, on the side of a ribcage.
Script quote and birds on ribs
Black calligraphy script reading still i rise with long flowing flourishes on a white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Still I rise script lettering design
Close photo of the words 'This is not for you.' tattooed in black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back.
Typewriter-style quote on upper back
Close crop of a person in grey shorts showing a small black fine line script tattoo on the outer thigh.
Fine script line tattoo on a thigh
Black lettering tattoo reading love, life, death doesn't discriminate in a typewriter-style font on the inner upper arm, in lettering style.
Love, life, death quote on an upper arm
Fine line black script tattoo running vertically down the side of the ribs, above the waistband of denim shorts.
Script quote along the ribs
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading Sometimes you gotta fall before you fly, with small birds in flight, on the side ribs.
Fine line quote with birds on the ribs
Black ink tattoo of a shaded feather with birds lifting away and a handwritten quote in script, across the upper back and shoulder blade.
Feather and quote on a shoulder blade
Colour tattoo on the top of a foot showing the words We're All Mad Here in dark script lettering beside a pink and purple Cheshire Cat, in a lettering style.
We're All Mad Here lettering and Cheshire Cat on a foot
Close crop of a woman's upper arm and shoulder showing a black fine line script tattoo running down the outer arm, in a lettering style.
Fine line script tattoo on upper arm
Black script lettering reading Rise and rise again until lambs become lions, tattooed along the inner forearm.
Script quote tattoo on the forearm
Black and white photo of a woman seen from behind in a hot tub, with a small lettering tattoo of a two-line quote across her upper back.
Small quote tattoo on upper back
Black tattoo of three tanks above the words 'We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane' on the outer thigh.
Tanks above a quote on the thigh
Black hand-drawn lettering tattooed across a person's back, reading a song lyric over several lines, shown in a lettering style.
Lyric lettering across a back
Fine line black lettering of a quote arranged in a circle around an ankle, with two hands holding the foot against a wooden floor.
Circular quote tattoo around an ankle
Black script tattoo reading Who Says Dreams Have To Stay Just Dreams on the top of a foot, with grey bubbles and a shell.
Script quote with bubbles and shell on a foot
Black script lettering reading Dance like nobody's watching runs across the top of a foot on a red and white bedsheet.
Script quote on the top of a foot
Black fine line script tattoo reading Give me strength when I'm standing and faith when I fall, across the back below the shoulder blade.
Script quote tattoo on the back
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Heart of a Lion across the upper chest, shown in a close photo.
Heart of a Lion lettering on chest
Fine line tattoo of a smiling sloth face with the words LIVE SLOW above and DIE WHENEVER below, on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Sloth face and quote on inner forearm
Black lettering tattoo on a forearm reading Not all those who wander are lost, with a mountain silhouette and two arrows between the lines.
Wander quote with mountains on a forearm
Black script lettering reading Love like Crazy with a small pink heart, tattooed across the top of a foot with pink painted toenails.
Love like crazy script on the foot
Black ink lettering tattoo on a forearm reading THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS FREEDOM inside a thin square frame, against a mountain photograph backdrop.
Framed quote on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo on an upper arm, arranged in a stacked typographic layout with words including fierce, strong, love, wild and life.
Word tattoo on upper arm
Traditional style tattoo of a dagger wrapped in a banner reading IT HURTS UNTIL IT DOESN'T, with orange flowers and black leaves, on a forearm.
Dagger and banner on a forearm
Black and grey circular flash design of an apple with a skull face and a blackletter quote around the ring, with no placement on the body shown.
Skull apple badge with blackletter quote
Colour realism tattoo of a grimacing woman in a head wrap, with the words Ain't nobody got time for that beneath, on an upper arm.
Grimacing portrait with quote on upper arm
Two people show black script tattoos on their lower backs, one reading Everyday for the and the other reading rest of our lives.
Matching script text on two lower backs
Two side-by-side photos of matching pink bow tattoos on the lower back, each with black script above or beside it, one reading To infinity and the other And beyond.
Matching pink bow tattoos with script quotes
Black script lettering on an inner forearm reads Give me your heart and your hand and we can run, in a Lettering style.
Script quote on an inner forearm
Black script tattoo reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beneath it, on the outer thigh, shown in a black and white photo.
Script quote and Romans 5:8 on the thigh
Black and grey geometric compass rose tattoo with a map outline and ringed lettering on a forearm, photographed in black and white.
Compass rose with ringed lettering on a forearm
Two matching fine line script tattoos on forearms, one reading I'll keep you wild above a small outlined triangle and the other reading I'll keep you safe.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms
Traditional style tattoo on a calf showing two crossed-finger hands and red roses within a gold-edged oval, with the words 'All the best lies they are told with fingers crossed' beneath.
Crossed fingers and roses on a calf
Black and grey traditional tattoo on a thigh, showing a peony, daisies, fern leaves, a stylised hand and a banner reading I long for you to hold me in your arms.
Peony and hand banner tattoo on thigh
Black flash sheet of two fox silhouettes, paw prints, bird footprints and animal tracks, with a mirrored quotation in small script.
Fox and animal track flash sheet
Close-up of the words so it goes in black typewriter-style lettering across the upper chest, in a Lettering style tattoo.
'So it goes' quote in typewriter lettering