Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black fine-line script quote tattoo running along a forearm, with the arm resting on a grey ledge against a dark wall.
Handwritten script quote on a forearm
Black hand-lettered script reading Be you, bravely, set inside a looping wreath of leafy sprigs on a plain light background, shown as a tattoo design.
Be you, bravely lettering in a leafy wreath
Black script lettering reading "You can't have love without sacrifice" across the upper back of a person wearing a black top, in a lettering style.
Script quote across upper back
Side ribs tattoo of two red roses shaded in black and grey, with script lettering reading Shall I complain that rose bushes have thorns, partly hidden by a black strap.
Red roses and script on ribs
Black script lettering reading 'One day at a time' across the upper back, a lettering tattoo between the shoulder blades.
One day at a time script on upper back
Close view of a fine line script tattoo reading 'to make each day count' along the side ribs, partly under a black garment.
Fine line script quote on the side ribs
Realistic black and grey feather tattoo on a forearm, with the script words Not all who wander are lost running beneath it.
Feather and script quote on a forearm
Black and grey realism style forearm tattoo of a mountain range above a pine tree line, with the words think like a mountain and Leopold beneath.
Mountain range and pines with a quote
Black ink flash design of a palm tree with the words Less Monday and More summer set in brush script either side of the trunk.
Palm tree with "Less Monday, more summer" lettering
Black script lettering reading 'there is always hope' on the upper chest near the collarbone, with a fine ball-chain necklace and long hair partly visible.
Script quote reading there is always hope
Black lettering tattoo on the inside of a wrist reading ATTITUDE is EVERYTHING, set in a geometric typeface with arrow lines beside the word is.
Attitude is everything wrist lettering
Close-up of a dark script tattoo reading "it's only rock 'n' roll" on the inner forearm of a person with long blonde hair and silver rings.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and grey feather tattoo with script lettering above it on the lower back, worn above a colourful bikini bottom.
Feather with script lettering on lower back
Black and white photo of a fine line script lettering tattoo across the ribs, reading Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words.
Script quote on the ribs
Black script lettering tattoo reading Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, placed on the side of the torso above the hip.
Two-line script quote tattoo on the side torso
Black lettering and symbol tattoos on a forearm, including a platform 9 3/4 roundel, the word always, a golden snitch, a lightning bolt and the Deathly Hallows symbol.
Harry Potter themed tattoos on a forearm
Black typewriter-style lettering tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade, set out as two lines of text.
Two-line quote across the upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading 'we accept the love we think we deserve' in a typewriter-style font across the upper back below the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo across the upper back
Black and grey fine line and dotwork tattoo of a llama wearing a hat and monocle, with the words save all drama for your llama, on a forearm.
Llama in a hat with dotwork shading
Colour tattoo of a sunflower with green leaves and a stem running down the centre of a person's back, with script beside the stem.
Sunflower with script down the spine
Colour tattoo of pink cherry blossoms and black swirling vines with script lettering and falling pink petals on the thigh.
Cherry blossom vine with script on a thigh
Black lettering on a woman's ribs reading 'she believed she could so she did' in a typewriter-style font, set in a stacked, left-aligned block.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the words you are beautiful, you are valuable, you are enough, with small birds, on a forearm.
Quote and birds on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo on the side of a torso in a bold, rounded typeface, reading a six-line quote about togetherness, placed on the ribs.
Quote lettering tattoo along the ribs
Black ink tattoo of a silhouetted figure rowing a boat over wavy lines, with a line of script beneath, on an upper arm.
Rowing boat over waves with script quote
Black fine line script tattoo reading walk by faith across the top of a foot near the ankle.
Walk by faith script on the foot
Woman seen from behind with a small black lettering quote tattoo across the lower back, above the waistband of black trousers.
Small lettering quote on lower back
Black ink tattoo of two swallows above the words We Only Part To Meet Again in a typewriter-style font, on the side of the torso.
Two swallows above a quote on the side
Black ink tattoo of a circular flower inside a ring of block-capital text, placed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Circular flower and quote on a forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading La vie est faite de petits bonheurs on the inner forearm, with a lace fabric background.
French script quote on a forearm
Black handwritten script reading "you can do this" in a brush lettering style on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
"You can do this" script lettering design
Black and grey forearm tattoo of a vintage microphone and two roses, with a banner reading The best is yet to come, in a realistic shaded style.
Microphone and roses banner on forearm
Black and grey hand-lettered tattoo flash design of an anchor with rope and the words If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land, drawn on a sketchbook page, with no body part shown.
Anchor with hand-lettered quote design
Fine line black tattoos on a forearm showing a cat peeking over a line, a crescent moon with a face and small lines of text.
Cat, crescent moon and text on a forearm
Black script lettering reading "You have no power over me" with fine vines and three small pink and blue shaded orbs, on the side of a thigh.
"You have no power over me" script on thigh
Two black script lettering tattoos, one reading Don't live in fear of the future on a forearm and one reading 'Cause I'll always be there on a shoulder.
Script quotes on forearm and shoulder
Black lettering tattoo in flowing script reading Our scars remind us that the past is real, across a person's upper back.
Script quote across upper back
Fine line black script tattoo reading Je ne regrette rien across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Je ne regrette rien script on collarbone
Black ink tattoo of the words So it goes. with a small fine line starburst below it, on the back of a woman's neck.
Quote and starburst at the nape of the neck
Black and white photo of a woman's bare back showing a fine line Greek lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of the spine.
Greek lettering down the spine
Back tattoo of two red and orange phoenixes on the shoulder blades, with black script running down the spine.
Twin phoenixes with spine script across a back
Black ink line drawing of a scroll banner reading FAITH, HOPE & LOVE within a handwritten scripture quote from 1 Corinthians 13:13, in a lettering style.
Banner lettering with 1 Corinthians 13:13
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the inner forearm, with a quote and a triangle symbol in the upper photo and a second quote in the lower photo.
Two quotes tattooed along a forearm
Black script lettering reading You'll never live if you're just too scared to die, tattooed on a forearm in black ink.
Script quote tattoo on an arm
Black script lettering reading Sometimes you've gotta fall before you fly, with small butterflies, on a woman's shoulder and upper back.
Script quote and butterflies on a shoulder
Black and grey script lettering reading Today was like one of those fly dreams across a shoulder and upper chest, with a small heart tattoo on a finger.
Script quote across shoulder and chest
Black serif lettering reading I will be king and you will be queen across the inner forearm.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black ink lettering tattoo of a block of scripture text across a person's upper back and shoulder blade.
Scripture lettering across a back