Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Fine line black script tattoo reading be your own kind of beautiful, set diagonally on the inner forearm.
Be your own kind of beautiful script on forearm
Black line drawing of a hand-lettered quote reading "But I crumble completely when you cry." in a lettering style, with broken, crumbling letterforms, on a white background.
Hand-lettered quote in black line
Black fine line script reading Walk by faith with three small birds in flight, tattooed across the top of a foot.
Walk by faith script with birds on foot
Black script lettering reading Always on my mind and Forever in my heart, with two linked outline hearts, shown as a flash design on a white background.
Script quote with two hearts
Fine line black script tattoo reading Love me for who I am with a small heart at the end, on the inner forearm.
Love me for who I am script on a forearm
Fine line black tattoo of three birds in flight above cursive script on the inner wrist and forearm.
Three birds and script quote on a wrist
Black script lettering running vertically down a woman's spine on her back, with a long braid falling over one shoulder.
Script quote down the spine
Black fine line script tattoo reading "You look so cool" on the front of a thigh, below a dark skirt.
Script quote on the thigh
Black script lettering on an arm reads 'Our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean', in a lettering style.
Wave quote lettering on an arm
Black and grey tattoo design of a crossed bow and arrow with scrolling flourishes, with the words Skin of a Lady and Heart of a Hunter running along the arrow shaft.
Crossed bow and arrow with quote lettering
Colour tattoo of purple and blue butterflies framing a script quote about wings and flying, shown in two photos of skin.
Butterflies with a script quote about wings
Black serif lettering reading peace will win and fear will lose across two lines on the forearm.
Peace will win, fear will lose on a forearm
White ink tattoo reading "We're all mad here" in decorative capitals across an arm, with a patterned fabric sleeve visible at the left.
"We're all mad here" lettering on an arm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading We live with the scars we choose on the lower back of a person lying on a bed.
Script quote tattoo on lower back
Fine line blue script reading in a world of my own with a daisy outline on the inner forearm, drawn in a lettering and botanical style.
Script quote and daisy on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoos reading Peace will win on one thigh and Fear will lose on the other, shown on a person wearing denim shorts and a grey top.
Peace will win and fear will lose on thighs
Two arms intertwined, showing fine line script tattoos reading I walk the line on an upper arm and Because your mine on a forearm, in a sepia photo.
Script text on two forearms
Black ink tattoo of a volleyball on a heartbeat line above script lettering, placed on the upper back.
Volleyball heartbeat line with script quote
Black lettering reading EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT, framed by green leaf sprigs on each side, shown on skin.
Quote lettering with leaf sprigs
Black handwritten script lettering reading Do what you love. Love what you do. in a diagonal line on a white background, a fine line tattoo design.
Do what you love, love what you do script
Black lettering tattoo on the thigh showing a buck symbol inside an outlined heart, with a quote about ducks, trucks and buck beneath it.
Buck heart and quote on a thigh
Fine line black script tattoo reading heaven has taken my hero across the upper back, just below the neck, with hair in a bun above it.
Script quote across upper back
Black lettering tattoo across a woman's upper back, with an ornate decorative initial A and a four-line verse in a gothic-style serif, photographed from behind.
Quote lettering across a woman's upper back
Two side-by-side photos of black lettering tattoos on the back of a neck, reading you see all my light and and you love my dark, in a serif typeface.
Two-line quote tattoo on the back of the neck
Colour tattoo of a green leafy bundle with white flowers and a banner reading I found within me an invincible summer, on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Leafy banner with quote on a shoulder blade
Black ink script quote with a small leaf sprig and a circular Gallifreyan-style design on the forearm.
Quote script and circular design on forearm
Fine line black script reading we're all mad here on a forearm, with green palm fronds behind the arm.
Fine line script quote on a forearm
Hand-drawn tattoo flash design of a barn owl wearing a pendant, with a banner reading No Power Over Me, shaded in pen and blue and orange watercolour wash.
Barn owl with banner reading No Power Over Me
Two wrists showing matching black script tattoos that read Every atom of me and & Every atom of you, in a lettering style on the inner forearms.
Matching script wrist tattoos
Black and grey rabbit mask tattoo with red hand-lettered quote and red splatter marks on an upper arm, shown in a realism and lettering style.
Rabbit mask and red lettering on upper arm
Black handwritten script reading listen to your soul on a plain white background, a lettering tattoo design with thin, even linework.
Listen to your soul in handwritten script
Black and teal fine script quote with swallows, swirls and a purple and teal butterfly tattooed across a person's upper back.
Swallows, swirls and script quote on upper back
Black script reading 'She believed she could... so she did' runs along the side of a foot above a pink running shoe and the figures 26.2 near the heel.
Quote and pink running shoe on a foot
Fine line black script reading Take these broken wings and learn to fly, curving down the ribs beside a small bird silhouette.
Script quote and bird on ribs
Colour tattoo of a feather with the words Strength lies within in black script, across the calf, in blue, orange and grey shading.
Feather with script lettering on a calf
Collage of small black fine line tattoos drawn from classic books, shown on upper arms, forearms, shoulders and backs.
Literary tattoos on arms and backs
Two photographs: black script reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good on the side of a torso, and black lettering reading Mischief Managed with flourishes on a forearm.
Script quote and lettering tattoos on skin
Black script tattoo on a person's upper back reading Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, with a feather and a flock of birds rising from it.
Feather and birds with script quote on upper back
Two photos of matching black script tattoos with a quote and interlocking outline hearts, one on the forearm near the wrist and one on the ankle.
Matching sister quote and interlocking hearts
Black script lettering reading You see all my light and You accept all my dark, paired with a black and white yin and yang symbol design.
Yin and yang with script quote
Fine line black script tattoo reading We need never be hopeless, running diagonally along the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Close-up of a black fine line script tattoo reading forever in my heart with the date 2.15.12, placed across the top of a shoulder.
Forever in my heart script on shoulder
Black script lettering reading "This too shall pass" across the upper chest of a woman in a dark low-cut top, styled in a flowing lettering style.
Script quote across the upper chest
Black brush-script lettering reading in the waves of change we find our direction, framed by an arrow at the top and bottom, shown as a flash design.
Quote lettering with arrows flash design
Black and grey realism drawing of a feather with the script words Someday I'll fly away running across it, shown as a tattoo design on a white background.
Feather with 'Someday I'll fly away' script
Close photo of the words Valar Morghulis in thin black cursive lettering across the inside of a wrist, a fine line lettering tattoo.
Valar Morghulis in script on a wrist
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm showing a solid bat emblem between two lines of rotated lettering, one reading why do we fall and the other so we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Bat emblem and quote on a forearm
Two forearms pressed together, each with a black script tattoo: one reads Every Saint Has A Past and the other Every Sinner Has A Future.
Matching quote tattoos on two forearms