Quote tattoo ideas

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Black script lettering reading How we survive is what makes us who we are, tattooed across the ribs with some redness around it.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black ink tattoo on a upper back showing the script words 'When words fail' above a heart made from treble and bass clefs, with 'Music speaks' below.
Clef heart with 'When words fail' quote on back
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I'll be one tough act to follow runs along the inner forearm.
Quote lettering along a forearm
Black script quote reading I will fly, chase the wind and touch the sky, beside an arrow and feather tattoo on the side of a ribcage.
Arrow and feather with script quote on ribs
Black script lettering reading Stay Alive on the inner forearm, just above a black leather strap worn at the wrist.
Stay Alive script on the wrist
Black script lettering on a forearm reads I looked in the mirror, & Decided to stay, set against patterned fabric.
Script quote on a forearm
Flash design of a cream ribbon banner with black script reading a quote about stars and returning, set on a purple background with black stars, drawn in a neo-traditional style.
Ribbon banner with a star-scattered quote
Black handwritten script tattoo reading What We Do In Life and Echoes In Eternity across the side of the ribs.
Two-line quote in script on the side ribs
Collage of four photos of black script lettering tattoos on ankles and feet, including the word wanderlust and the phrase maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Script lettering tattoos on ankles and feet
Black lettering tattoo on a person's upper back reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below and an attribution to e.e. cummings.
Quote lettering across upper back
Black Arabic script reading Just breathe, with the English translation in a typewriter-style serif beneath, on a plain white background.
Arabic lettering reading Just breathe
Colour tattoo of falling autumn leaves and swirling script reading I am a leaf on the wind watch how I soar, on the outer thigh, with a green vine tattoo above it.
Autumn leaves and script quote on a thigh
Black blackletter lettering in four lines runs down the side of a torso, forming a quote about hope beneath it all.
Blackletter quote along the side ribs
Black line design of a long, diagonal script quote that ends in a feather, birds and a dreamcatcher, shown on a white background.
Script quote with feather and dreamcatcher
Back of a person's neck with vertical rainbow stripe tattoo above black block lettering reading NOT CRYING ON SUNDAYS.
Rainbow stripes and lettering on the neck
Black and white photo of a forearm with a quote tattooed in black serif lettering, with a band of symbols near the wrist.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a cowboy riding a galloping horse beside the words cow girls don't cry ride baby ride, on a person's upper back.
Rodeo rider on horseback with lettering on upper back
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line quote running along the side of a person's hip or upper thigh.
Script quote tattoo along the side of the hip
Forearm tattoo of a green flying figure silhouette above the black script Take me to Neverland, with a dotted green trail.
Peter Pan silhouette and Neverland script on forearm
Black fine line tattoo on a forearm of a paper plane with a dashed flight path looping beneath it and the words Act on your impulse running along the path.
Paper plane and dashed flight path on forearm
Two people with matching fine line script tattoos on their ribs, one reading you'll keep me wild and the other you'll keep me safe, in black ink.
Matching script quotes on two sets of ribs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading 'we live with the scars we choose' on the side of the torso.
Typewriter quote tattoo on the side
Black ink tattoos of book spines, quotation marks and handwritten script quotes across a man's crossed forearms, in fine line style.
Book spines and literary quotes on forearms
Black and grey tattoo of a ribbon bow and scrollwork frame with the words I gave them life, they gave me a reason to live, on the outer thigh.
Ribbon bow and scroll with script on thigh
Black script lettering tattoo reading Philippians 4:13 on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Scripture verse in script on upper back
Black script lettering tattoo on the outer thigh, set in four lines of text reading a quote about forgiveness.
Quote lettering on a thigh
Black script lettering reading She is clothed in strength and dignity, with three swallows, tattooed along the side of a foot.
Swallows and script quote on a foot
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading 'my story isn't over' with semicolons, placed on the inner wrist of a raised fist.
Semicolon quote on the inner wrist
Black and white photo of a fine script lettering tattoo reading Freedom Beauty Truth Love across a person's ribs, with a dark lace band at the hip.
Freedom Beauty Truth Love script on ribs
Black script lettering reading I'll never give up, I'm a fighter across the inner upper arm, with a few small red marks near the text.
Script quote on the upper arm
Black lettering in a typewriter-style font reading find what you love and let it kill you, tattooed along a forearm.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a quotation with the attribution Dr. M.L.K jr, set in lines down the inner forearm.
Quotation lettering on a forearm
Black script lettering tattoo across an upper back, reading 'You make beautiful things out of dust Gen. 2:7', placed over the shoulder blade.
Script quote across the upper back
Black ink script lettering on white paper reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beside it, shown as a lettering tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Script lettering reading I loved you at your darkest
Black ink line drawing of a treble clef whose curls spell out the words whisper, words, of, wisdom, let it be, a lettering design shown on beige paper with no body placement visible.
Treble clef with looping script lettering
Black ink fine line tattoo of dandelion seeds drifting into birds, with the script 'i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)', on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Dandelion seeds, birds and script on shoulder blade
Black and grey neo-traditional tattoo on an upper arm showing a hand mirror with the script 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder', framed by a rose, beads and scrollwork.
Mirror, rose and 'Beauty is in the eye of the beholder'
A wing made of musical staff lines and notes, with a red ribbon and the script words Fly from the inside, tattooed on an upper arm.
Musical wing and script quote on upper arm
Black script lettering tattoo reading Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today, across a forearm in a black and grey style.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Close-up of a black script lettering tattoo reading "Don't paint me black when I used to be golden" across the upper chest near the shoulder.
Script lyric quote tattoo across upper chest
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading Aime-moi pour ce que je suis, running along the collarbone towards the shoulder.
French quote in script along the collarbone
Close-up of a fine line lettering tattoo reading Be just and fear not in dark ink on the inner wrist.
Be just and fear not quote on wrist
Traditional style tattoo on a thigh of a quote, Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, framed by red roses and green leaves.
Rose wreath with quote on thigh
Black script lettering reading not all those who wander are lost, with two small bird silhouettes, tattooed along the lower leg in a lettering style.
Script quote and birds on a lower leg