Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black ink tattoo on a thigh with script lettering reading Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, a flock of birds and a feather.
Quote, birds and feather on a thigh
Black and grey fine line lettering reading 'i love you to the moon and back' with a small crescent moon on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Moon and quote on the inner wrist
Black outline tattoo on a forearm with the script Too Beautiful for Earth above a sleeping winged cherub.
Script and winged cherub on a forearm
Black and grey botanical tattoo design of dandelion seeds, daffodils, a rose and a sunflower with script lettering, shown on a white background.
Dandelion, daffodils, rose and sunflower with script
Black hand-drawn lettering design of phrases arranged in the shape of a cross, shown as a flash-style tattoo design on a white background.
Text cross lettering design
Black script lettering reading 'We loved with a love that was more than love' runs along the inside of a forearm in a lettering style.
Script quote along a forearm
Black ink hand-lettered script design reading I loved you at your darkest, with Romans 5:8 beside it, drawn on white paper as a lettering design.
Script lettering: I loved you at your darkest
Traditional style tattoo of a pink rose with green leaves above the lyric How Strange It Is To Be Anything At All in a scrolled black cartouche, on a lower leg.
Pink rose and quote on a calf
Black handwritten script reading "i love you to the moon and back" with a small black crescent moon on the inner wrist, in a lettering style.
Quote and crescent moon on a wrist
Traditional style flash design of a red rose, pale blue snowflake and yellow flame above a ribbon banner reading KEEP MOVING FORWARD, with no body placement shown.
Rose, snowflake and ribbon quote design
Black and grey realism tattoo of roses, a feather, a pocket watch, butterflies and cursive script along the ribs and side of the torso.
Roses, feather and script on a side torso
Black script lettering reading I'd Rather Die On My Feet Than Live On My Knees runs across the upper arm in lettering style.
Script quote lettering across the upper arm
Black line drawing of a sailing ship above a curling banner reading IT IS NOT DOWN ON ANY MAP TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, with waves below, in a traditional style.
Ship and banner quote design
Black lettering tattoo reading Vienna waits for you in cursive script on the inner wrist, shown against a patterned rug.
Script quote reading Vienna waits for you on a wrist
Close-up of a typewriter-style quote, 'Art Is The Weapon Imagination IS The Ammunition', in black ink with multicoloured watercolour splashes on the ribs.
Quote with watercolour splashes on the ribs
Line drawing flash design of a ribboned banner reading I solemnly swear I am up to no good, above a trail of black footprints.
Banner quote with footprint trail
Handwritten script reading "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, ok?" beside a blue TARDIS tattoo on the upper chest.
Quote and TARDIS on the upper chest
Black and grey realism style dandelion tattoo on the ribs with drifting seeds and the words behaving as the wind behaves along the stem.
Dandelion seeds and script on ribs
Black dotwork and fine line pyramid above the words 'the world is a wonderfully weird place' in typewriter-style text, tattooed on the inner forearm.
Pyramid and quote on a forearm
Black script lettering quote across the lower leg above the ankle, with blue and orange swirling star shapes in colour.
Script quote with swirling stars on lower leg
Black script lettering reading not all those who wander are lost, with a feather and a small bird, tattooed on the ankle of a foot on a beach.
Feather, bird and quote on the ankle
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
Black and grey fine line drawing of a bird with an arrow beneath the words Hope is the only thing stronger than fear, set on a white background.
Bird and arrow with quote design
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 ink drawing of a geometric compass rose with a lotus-like centre, flanked by the letters N, E, S and W, with the quote Listen to your inner compass running up the page.
Compass rose design with inner compass quote
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 and grey castle tattoo with a ribbon banner reading a dream is a wish your heart makes, placed on a calf.
Castle and quote banner on a calf
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
Neo-trad tattoo of a grey robot head with yellow eyes, red flowers and green leaves, with the words You Are Who You Choose To Be above it, on an upper arm.
Robot head and roses on upper arm
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