Quote tattoo ideas

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Black italic script lettering reading 'If the words you spoke appeared on your skin, would you still be beautiful?' on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design.
Italic quote lettering design
Black and grey infinity symbol tattoo on the wrist, formed from fine lettering reading live the life you love and love the life you live.
Infinity quote tattoo on a wrist
Black lettering tattoo of a four-line quote in a handwritten script across a person's ribs, on skin with an orange garment at the edges.
Four-line quote tattoo along the ribs
Pencil sketch of a tattoo design with a treble and bass clef forming a heart, music notes and the script words When it hits you feel no pain, drawn on paper with no body part shown.
Clef heart with music notes and script quote
Black script lettering reading Life is a beautiful struggle, Never let it define you, across the upper back near the shoulder.
Script quote across upper back
Black handwritten brush lettering reading Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there, with the attribution Rumi below, on a plain white background.
Close your eyes quote lettering
Black fine line script tattoo reading You'll be in my heart always, placed across the top of a shoulder above a black top.
Script quote on a shoulder
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a line of text on the inner forearm, flanked by a moth motif on each side.
Quote with moths on a forearm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading believe in yourself across the top of a shoulder.
Believe in yourself script on shoulder
Two people seen from behind with matching black script tattoos on their shoulder blades, an infinity symbol with a feather or an anchor and the words about wings and anchors.
Matching infinity feather and anchor quote tattoos on
Black script lettering tattooed in several lines along a woman's side and ribs, with her hand resting on her arm and skin glistening with water.
Cursive script lines along the ribs
Two forearms with matching fine line script tattoos, the upper one reading Together forever, never apart and the lower one reading maybe in distance but never in heart with a small red heart.
Paired script quote tattoos on two forearms
Black handwritten brush lettering reading every moment matters on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design rather than on skin.
Every moment matters lettering design
Black and grey script lettering reading I move the stars for no one, placed across the upper back below the neck.
Script quote tattoo across upper back
Black script lettering reading Never let your fear decide your fate, a lettering tattoo across the forearm.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Black silhouette design of birds flying from a feather beside the script words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a pale feathered background.
Flying birds, feather and script quote design
Black sans-serif lettering tattoo reading 'Happiness only real when shared' across the upper arm, with a grey sleeve visible at the top of the frame.
Quote tattoo reading 'Happiness only real when shared'
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading ; my story isn't over in a simple lowercase sans serif on the side of a foot.
Semicolon quote on the side of a foot
Black script lettering reading 'There is a light that never goes out' across the upper back, shown in two photos.
Script quote tattoo across upper back
Fine line black script quote tattoos on the tops of two feet, reading for them I'd risk it all and because of her I will not fall.
Script quote tattoos on two feet
Back view of a fine line black script tattoo reading everything in my life happens for a reason, placed across the upper back between the shoulder blades.
Script quote across the upper back
Close-up of a black script lettering tattoo on pale skin reading Find what you love and Let it kill you, with an ampersand between the lines.
Script quote tattoo, Find what you love
Black and grey tattoo on a forearm showing a sun over mountains and a lake, with handwritten lettering arranged around the design.
Mountain and sun quote on forearm
Black block lettering on the inner wrist reads 'Destroy what destroys you', a lettering tattoo on the forearm beside a grey knit sleeve.
Destroy what destroys you lettering on a wrist
Black typewriter-style lettering on the inner upper arm reads Don't lose yourself in your fear.
Quote in typewriter lettering on upper arm
Black fine line script tattoo reading "Wild hearts can't be tamed" with decorative swirls, placed on the calf.
Wild hearts can't be tamed lettering on a leg
Fine line black script tattoo reading still i rise, with a shaded flower and leaves at the end of a thin stem, on a patch of skin.
Still I rise script with a flower
Two people seen from behind with matching fine line black script tattoos on their shoulders, one reading You Are My Sunshine and the other My Only Sunshine, each beside a small sun with rays.
Matching sunshine quote tattoos on shoulders
Two matching forearm tattoos: a watercolour feather with script and flying birds on the left, and a black and grey anchor with rope, birds and script on the right.
Feather and anchor matching forearm tattoos
Black fine line script lettering reading The struggle is part of the story, tattooed on a section of skin in a close-up photo.
Script quote reading The struggle is part of the story
Black and grey traditional anchor tattoos with rope and script lettering on both thighs, worn above striped over-knee socks.
Matching anchor tattoos with quotes on thighs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Fear is the mind-killer across the inner wrist and forearm, shown in a close photograph.
Quote reading Fear is the mind-killer on a wrist
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading oh darling, let's be adventurous in black ink across the inner forearm, with a white lace cuff at the wrist.
Fine line script quote on a forearm
Two forearms pressed together show black script lettering reading Forgive my sins and Touch my soul, with a red and multicoloured woven bracelet on one wrist.
Matching script quote tattoos on forearms
Two photos of black script lettering tattoos on skin, one reading together forever, never apart and the other reading maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Two script quote tattoos on skin
Black and grey tattoo of an anchor with the words 'a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor' on a forearm, in a black and white photo.
Anchor and sailor quote on a forearm
Fine line black and grey tattoo of a matchbook with a row of matches and the script words I burn for you on a forearm.
Matchbook with 'I burn for you' on a forearm
Black handwritten script on a white background reading go where you feel the most alive, a lettering design in a Lettering style.
Go where you feel the most alive lettering
Black script reading 'If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever', framed by two calla lilies with soft colour and flourishes, tattooed on the upper back.
Calla lilies and script quote on upper back
Black and grey script lettering tattoo running along a forearm, photographed in black and white.
Script quote on a forearm
Black hand-lettered tattoo reading IF NOT NOW WHEN? in blocky capitals across the inner wrist and hand.
If not now when lettering on the wrist
Fine line black script lettering reading Courage, dear heart with the attribution CS Lewis beneath, drawn on a plain white background.
Courage, dear heart script lettering design
Black fine line script tattoo reading miles to go, sitting along the side of the torso below a dark garment hem.
Miles to go in script on the side
Black script lettering tattooed along a thigh, reading a four-line quote in a fine line style, with denim shorts rolled at the top of the frame.
Script lyric quote along a thigh
Black script lettering reading 'the very things that hold you down' on a thigh, beside a coloured cartoon elephant tattoo on a second thigh.
Script quote and cartoon elephant on thighs
Black script lettering reading 'To live is just to fall asleep, to die is to awaken' across the upper chest, in a lettering style.
Script quote across upper chest
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading This is not for you on the inner wrist, with the word you in red.
Script quote on the inner wrist
Black fine line script reading breathe in, breathe out, move on on the inner wrist, set against a hessian background.
Script quote on the inner wrist