Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Flash design of an elephant with black ornate patterning and watercolour splashes in pink, yellow and teal, with a feather above and the words you are not alone.
Watercolour elephant with feather
Fine line black tattoo of the words love yourself in cursive script beside an arrow with a heart cutout on the shaft, on the upper arm.
Love yourself script and arrow
Black and grey compass rose tattoo with the words Not all those who wander are lost curved around it on bare skin.
Compass rose with a curved quote
Black and white photo of a lettering tattoo reading we're all stories in the end across the back of a neck, with hair falling around it.
Quote tattoo on the back of the neck
Colour tattoo of Dory the blue tang fish beside blue script reading Just Keep Swimming, across the sole and side of a foot.
Dory and Just Keep Swimming on a foot
Colour tattoo of a cartoon character with yellow eyes and horns, coiled around a red tail, with the quote What fun is there in making sense? on the calf.
Cartoon character and quote on a calf
Two small tattoos: a red and white rocket with the words and beyond in black script on the ribs, and a cowboy hat with the words to infinity in blue script on the thigh.
Rocket and cowboy hat tattoos with quotes
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I contain multitudes on the inner wrist, photographed with the palm facing up in bright light.
I contain multitudes quote on wrist
Black and grey script tattoo of the words If our love could have saved you, you would have lived forever, framed by shaded angel wings and a halo on the upper back.
Angel wings and script quote on upper back
Black script tattoo reading i am because you are running diagonally along the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Script quote on a forearm
Traditional-style tattoo of a scroll banner reading Home is whenever I'm with you, wrapped around teal, orange and yellow feathers on the upper arm.
Feather and banner quote on upper arm
Colour puzzle piece tattoo on a lower leg with black script lettering reading Don't Judge What you Don't Understand.
Puzzle piece lettering tattoo on a calf
Sepia drawing of a swallow in flight beside cursive script reading and in time, this too shall pass.
Swallow in flight with cursive quote
Black script tattoo reading "It only takes a little push to pull on through" beside a small outlined heart with an eye, on the upper arm.
Heart and eye with script quote on an arm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back, with a small crescent moon below, on the inner forearm.
Moon and back quote with crescent moon on forearm
Collage of black script lettering tattoos on forearms, wrists, hands and ankles, including the phrases You and me and Times infinity.
Script quote tattoos on forearms, hands and ankles
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading "If you can dream it, you can do it" on the side of the ribs, with a hand and ring visible above.
Black script quote on the side ribs
Close up of a fine line black script tattoo reading With pain comes strength along the ribs of a person wearing a grey sports bra.
Script quote reading With pain comes strength on ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading omnia mutantur nihil interit across the inner forearm.
Latin script quote on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading Not all those who wander are lost, in fine line lettering on the wrist, with beaded bracelets worn below it.
Script quote tattoo on the wrist
Red blackletter letter with black cracked shading and small black script lines above and below it, tattooed on a forearm, in a lettering style.
Red blackletter letter with script quote on forearm
Two matching forearm tattoos show a black silhouette of a woman holding hands with two children, with script text reading because of her I will not fall and for them I'd risk it all.
Matching family silhouette and quote forearm tattoos
Handwritten navy lettering reading I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote about a leaf on the wind
Black handwritten script lettering tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder, photographed from behind in a car.
Handwritten quote across upper back
Pink and purple Celtic knot above black script lettering reading Always Keep Fighting, tattooed on the inner wrist and lower forearm.
Celtic knot and Always Keep Fighting script
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below, against blue fabric.
e.e. cummings quote tattoo on the thigh
Two photographs of women seen from behind, one with a small black script lettering tattoo on her upper back beside a strappy top.
Script tattoo on a woman's upper back
Colour tattoo of a yellow dandelion clock with green leaves and a handwritten quote running down the calf, in a botanical style.
Dandelion and script quote on a calf
Black and grey tattoo of a feather with birds flying away and the script words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a person's upper back and shoulder.
Feather, birds and quote on upper back
Black fine line tattoo of a soldier outline with a serif quote inside the figure, on skin in black ink.
Soldier outline with quote tattoo
Black line tattoo design of overlapping Gallifreyan-style circles above the words I will love you through all of space and time, with an IPA transcription beneath.
Gallifreyan circles with a love quote
Black script lettering tattoo on the lower back reading Where life begins and love never ends, with Family in larger script beneath.
Script quote tattoo reading Family
Close-up of a fine line handwritten script tattoo reading "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?" with a small blue TARDIS, on the upper chest.
Handwritten quote and TARDIS on the chest
Black, grey and red realistic skull tattoo with splashed ink and script lettering on the inner forearm.
Skull with red splashes on a forearm
Black and grey tattoos on both forearms showing a stack of book spines, large quotation marks and lettering, with small sketched flying figures near the wrist.
Book spines and quotes on both forearms
Black lettering tattoo reading I love you to the moon and back, with stars and a crescent moon, across a person's upper back shoulder, with a grey rose tattoo visible at the edge of the frame.
I love you to the moon and back on a shoulder
Two arms with black script lettering on the forearms, one reading For them I'd risk it all and the other reading Because of her I will not fall.
Two script quotes on forearms
Colour tattoo of Captain America's shield with a white star on the inner forearm, above the words Sometimes you have to believe that heroes exist.
Captain America shield with quote on forearm
Black script lettering tattoo running down the outer leg from the upper thigh towards the knee, shown in a lettering style.
Script lettering running down a leg
Black script lettering design reading 'And the chaos within me found balance' on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Script quote about chaos and balance
Black handwritten script lettering on white reading 'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger', shown as a lettering design with no body placement visible.
Handwritten quote, What doesn't kill you
Black and grey realism tattoo of three roses and a compass with script above, on the outer thigh.
Roses and compass on a thigh
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I am burdened with glorious purpose runs along the side of a torso, shown in two stacked photographs.
Typewriter quote along the side of the ribs
Two feet show matching black script lettering reading You'll never walk alone, running along the outer foot in lettering style.
Script quote along the outer foot
Black ink tattoo of two silhouetted birds on a branch with a small heart knot and a script quote above, placed on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Birds on a branch with quote across the upper back
Black script lettering on a side ribcage reading a line about being stitched together, with coloured sewing motifs including a red thread spool, three buttons and a tomato pincushion.
Script quote on ribs with sewing motifs
Black lettering tattoo of a long passage about passion running vertically down the side of a torso over the ribs.
Passion quote lettering down the side
Collage of four Harry Potter themed tattoos on the leg or arm: a colourful owl with a Hogwarts crest, a black and grey book quote, a watercolour stag and a Funko-style Harry Potter figure.
Harry Potter themed tattoo collage