Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black fine-lettering text tattoo across the lower back of a woman in a beaded top and jeans, shown from behind.
Small text tattoo on lower back
Black script reading This too shall pass across the upper back, with birds flying from a dandelion seed head in a black lettering and botanical style.
This too shall pass script with dandelion on back
Black handwritten script tattoo reading Believe in yourself across the inside of a wrist, in Lettering style.
Believe in yourself script on a wrist
Black script lettering reading Love Fearlessly on the neck behind the ear, photographed from behind a person with hair in a bun.
Love Fearlessly script behind the ear
Dark script lettering reading "Not all those who wander are lost" on the outer thigh, with a denim shirt pulled up beside it.
Script quote tattoo on the thigh
Black script lettering tattoo reading Where life begins and love never ends, with Family in larger script, on skin, likely the lower back or side.
Script lettering reading Where life begins
Black fine-line script tattoo reading Imperfection is beauty running along a pale forearm, photographed in black and white.
Script quote reading Imperfection is beauty
Black script lettering tattoo of a quotation running diagonally along a forearm, with a larger flowing opening line and smaller text below.
Script quote along a forearm
Black script lettering reading For we live by faith, not by sight, across the side of a torso on the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Fine line black script tattoo reading be brave, have courage, be strong on the side of the ribs, with a finger resting at the edge of the frame.
Three-line script quote on the ribs
Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading Real or Not Real? on the inner wrist, shown in lettering style.
Real or Not Real script on a wrist
Colour neo-traditional tattoo on a thigh showing a white cartoon cat with a pink bow inside a gold frame, with pink banners reading ladies don't start fights but they can finish them.
White cartoon cat in gold frame with quote banners
Black script tattoo across a person's upper back reading a Vincent Van Gogh quote about stars, with the person's face not shown.
Van Gogh quote in script across upper back
Traditional style tattoo of a light bulb with the words BABE YOU TURN ME ON arched above it and green leaves at its sides, on a limb.
Light bulb with quote on a limb
Fine line black script reading we're all mad here running along the inner forearm of a pale arm against a light background.
We're all mad here script on a forearm
Black and white photo of a bare back with a fine line cross tattoo down the spine and fine script across the upper back and arms.
Cross and script tattoos on a back
Black script lettering reading I will make better mistakes tomorrow across the inner forearm and wrist, shown against grey tarmac.
Script quote on a wrist
Black typewriter-style lettering of a reader quote tattooed along the inside of a forearm, set in a stacked block of text.
Reader quote tattoo on a forearm
Black script lettering reading "Not all those who wander are lost" with a blue flower and vine on the top of a foot.
Script quote and blue flower on a foot
Black handwritten script tattoo reading I know you might roll your eyes at this, but I'm so glad that you exist, shown on a forearm and an upper thigh.
Handwritten quote tattoo on forearm and thigh
Two feet show matching black ink tattoos on the ankles, a ship's wheel with the script 'be the one to guide me' and an anchor with 'but never hold me down'.
Matching ship's wheel and anchor ankle tattoos
Black and grey photo of a script lettering tattoo reading We're simply meant to be on the inner wrist and forearm.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Close-up of a wrist with a lettering design reading I'm With Courtney's 21st Birthday Party, If I'm Lost, Please Buy Me A Drink, beside a small red martini glass, in a typewriter-style font.
21st birthday quote and cocktail glass on wrist
Fine line black script reading with pain comes strength runs vertically along the side of a torso, beside a hand with rings resting on a purple top.
Script quote along the side ribs
Black serif lettering of a two-line poetic quote tattooed across the upper back, shown in a lettering style.
Two-line quote across upper back
Colour script lettering reading As Lost As Alice, As Mad As a Hatter in blue, red and black ink on a forearm, with a small red heart.
As lost as Alice lettering on a forearm
Shaded grey and green mermaid silhouette on a rock before a pale moon, with the words somewhere beyond my wildest dreams in script on the upper back.
Mermaid on a rock with script quote on upper back
Forearm tattoo of a rope-edged infinity symbol with an anchor and the script words I refuse to sink, mostly black ink with a red accent.
Anchor and infinity rope with script on forearm
White fine line script reading Remember why you started on a plain black background, shown as a lettering design for a tattoo.
Remember why you started script lettering
Black and grey script tattoos on a foot, one reading Together forever, never apart and the other reading Maybe in distance, but never in heart, each with a small shaded heart.
Script quotes with hearts on a foot
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with the words we were, AND IN THAT MOMENT I SWEAR and infinite woven into an infinity symbol, shown on plain paper.
Infinity loop with lettered quote design
Black and white photo of a woman's upper back showing a small fine line black tattoo of a ballet dancer silhouette beside cursive script, with an inset of the design on white.
Ballet dancer and script on upper back
Black and grey fine line tattoo on a forearm, with the script words in a world of my own running into an outlined daisy.
Daisy and script quote on a forearm
Black flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, set in black lettering on white.
Two swallows above a quote
Black lettering tattoo of a three-line quote reading I am and always will be the optimist on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Optimist quote lettering across upper back
Close view of black lettering tattooed along the side of a person's waist reading 'In the sun I feel as one', with a small black tattoo on the forearm at the top right.
Lyric line tattoo along the side of the waist
Two photos of black script lettering on a forearm reading you see all my light, and below it you accept all my dark, placed on the inner forearm.
Script quote tattoos on the forearm
Black script lettering reading To live does not mean your alive, tattooed across the back in a lettering style.
Script quote tattoo on the back
Close-up of a black script quote tattoo reading the wolf that wins is the wolf you feed, running across the ribs on a person's side.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Fine line dragonfly tattoo with grey wings and a blue body, with the script words I love you more than you know trailing from its tail across the upper back.
Dragonfly with script quote on a shoulder blade
Black and grey script reading Sometimes you have to fall before you can fly, with grey wings and two pink zebra-striped hearts on a person's side ribs.
Winged hearts with script quote on ribs
Black ink lettering reading curiouser and curiouser, looped through two ringed planet outlines, on the inner forearm.
Curiouser and curiouser script with ringed loops
Black and white photo of a woman's upper back with a black script lettering tattoo of a lyric quote across the shoulder blades.
Script lyric quote across upper back
Fine line black infinity symbol tattoo on the inner forearm, with the script words you'll be with me wherever I go running along the loop.
Infinity symbol with script quote on forearm
Black fine line script reading I'll never walk alone with three paw prints, tattooed on the outer side of a foot near the ankle.
Script quote and paw prints on a foot
Black and grey flash sheet of anchor designs with script quotes, including a large engraved-style anchor with rope and a small anchor beside the words I refuse to sink.
Anchor and lettering tattoo flash sheet
Close view of a black script lettering tattoo reading though every dark night there is a brighter day, placed along the side ribs and partly below a white lace top.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Black and grey traditional tattoo of an ornate birdcage with a bird inside and a swallow flying out, above a banner of text on the upper arm.
Birdcage and swallow on an upper arm