Quote tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey portrait tattoo of a man's face with lettering below it, on the inside of a forearm.
Portrait and quote on a forearm
Realism style tattoo of a shaded purple feather with black birds rising from its tip and script lettering beside it, on the side of a torso.
Purple feather with birds and script on the side
Fine line tattoo of six small birds in flight above the script words Life goes on... on a woman's upper back near the shoulder.
Birds in flight and script on shoulder
Fine line script lettering reading Dream without fear and Love without Limits in black ink on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design without a body placement.
Dream without fear, love without limits lettering
Close-up of a black handwritten-style lettering tattoo on skin reading a quote followed by the attribution Jon Bovi.
Handwritten quote tattoo in black ink
Black and grey shaded feather tattoo with cursive script across the lower back, above a patterned bikini bottom.
Feather with script quote on lower back
Black script lettering reading Believe in yourself on the inner wrist, with a braided tan bracelet and silver clasp below it.
Believe in yourself script on the inner wrist
Black fine serif lettering reading still I rise across the inner wrist, shown in a dark, softly lit black and grey photograph.
still I rise lettering on a wrist
Black and grey lettering reading I've lived a thousand lives above a shaded stack of books, tattooed on a person's left side ribs.
Book stack and quote on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of three lines of uppercase text on a forearm, set against a dark background.
Lyric quote on a forearm
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading "I am enough" on a person's shoulder, in a sepia-toned photograph.
"I am enough" script on a shoulder
Black script lettering reading "We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy" across a person's upper back, with a partial dark design at the left edge.
Script quote across upper back
Black and grey realism style tattoo of a parchment scroll carrying a handwritten script quote, placed on the side of the ribs.
Scroll with script quote on ribs
Black and white photo of a fine line script tattoo reading 'You are my sunshine' with a spiral sun, on the side of an ankle.
Script quote and spiral sun on ankle
Shaded blue feather with the script 'Take these broken wings and learn to fly' and small butterflies, a realism and lettering tattoo on the upper back.
Blue feather and lettering on upper back
Black and grey fine line tattoo of four birds in flight above the script words life is a beautiful struggle, across the ribs.
Birds and script quote on the ribs
Small black handwritten script reading "you are art" on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Handwritten
Lettering tattoo on the outer thigh reading a quote in black script, flanked by red and blue 3D glasses on the left and a red bow tie on the right.
Quote with 3D glasses and bow tie on a thigh
Woman with a black and grey tattoo sleeve on her left arm featuring dice, a tattoo of ornate swirls across her abdomen and script lettering on her thigh.
Sleeve, torso and thigh tattoos
Black ink flash design on white paper showing script lettering that reads I have loved you with an everlasting love, with arrows and feathers, held beside a pencil.
Arrows and feathers with Jeremiah 31:3 lettering
Black lettering in a typewriter-style font reads we are not our failures across the forearm, in a lettering style tattoo.
Quote on forearm in typewriter font
Black ink fine line tattoo on a person's upper back and shoulder, showing the word Wanderlust in script above a mountain outline with a small line of text beneath.
Wanderlust script and mountain line on shoulder
Fine line black script reading endless love tattooed across a finger, shown against a dark floral fabric.
Endless love script tattoo on a finger
Black script lettering reading 'We accept the love we think we deserve' across the ribs, in a lettering style.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Black fine line cursive script quotation running diagonally across the inner forearm.
Cursive quotation on forearm
Fine line black tattoo of an open book with a script quotation on the upper back of a woman with her hair pinned up.
Open book with quote on upper back
Black lettering reading Once you go black you never go back sits above an outline of Africa with a heart and the words I AFRICA inside, tattooed across a person's upper back.
Script quote and Africa outline on upper back
Two black and grey fine line script tattoos on the ankles, reading you keep me safe and you keep me wild, each with Morse style dots and dashes beneath.
Matching ankle script quotes with Morse code
Abstract portrait of a man in a hat on an upper arm sleeve, shaded in black and grey with green fill, red line, geometric lines and quote lettering.
Portrait of a man in a hat with quote on upper arm
Close-up of a fine line black script lettering tattoo reading we're all mad here, placed across the forearm.
Fine line script quote on a forearm
Close photo of a fine line script tattoo reading I was not built to break, placed across the upper chest above a blue and white striped top.
Script quote tattoo across the upper chest
Black script lettering reading 'Those who fly solo Have the strongest wings' across the upper back of a person with short blonde hair.
Script quote tattoo across upper back
Black and grey script lettering reading Family is where life begins and love never ends on a forearm, in a fine line lettering style.
Family quote script on an arm
Black script lettering on the inner upper arm reads Sky above me, Earth below me, Fire within me.
Three-line script quote on inner upper arm
Collage of three photos of a shoulder tattoo of coloured paw prints in blue, green, purple and orange above the script 'I'll meet you at the bridge'.
Colourful paw prints with script on a shoulder
Black lettering reading I run for those who can't sits above two black footprints and a dotted red trail, all tattooed on skin.
Running quote with footprints on skin
Black script tattoo reading 'My mom is my angle' across the upper back, with reddened skin around it.
Script quote across the upper back
Black and grey death's head moth tattoo with a skull on its thorax, framed by two lines of black lettering on the thigh.
Death's head moth with quote on a thigh
Black linework flash design of a robot head inside circular blackletter-style lettering reading YOU ARE WHO YOU CHOOSE TO BE, drawn on cream paper.
Robot head with circular quote lettering design
Black ink tree with a stippled canopy above the script quote 'i climbed the tree to see the world' on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Tree and script quote on the inner wrist
Handwritten script lettering reading Even so, it is well with my soul in navy ink on white, a lettering design in a Lettering style with no body placement shown.
Script lettering of a hymn phrase in navy
Fine line black tattoo of an arrow above the words 'this too shall pass' in script, on the side of a person's ribs.
Arrow and script lettering on the ribs
Colour tattoo on an upper arm of a green tent among pine trees under a starry sky, with the words Home is where your heart is arched above and below it, in a traditional style.
Tent and pine trees with lettering on an upper arm
Black script lettering reading i am not afraid to walk this world alone, tattooed across the inner wrist and forearm of a hand held up against greenery.
Quote tattoo along the inner wrist
Black serif lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading we all have scars and we all have stories, in a lettering style.
Quote tattoo reading we all have scars
Black and grey typewriter-style lettering reading 'you're going to have to save yourself' across the upper back, with dark hair pulled up behind the neck.
Typewriter quote across upper back
Hand-drawn lettering design reading 'Bind my wandering heart to thee' in black marker on pale blue paper, a lettering sketch with no body placement shown.
Hand-lettered 'Bind my wandering heart to thee' design
Two matching fine line lettering tattoos on the lower legs reading 'Different flowers from the same garden', one set in a circle and one in an arc, in dark ink.
Matching 'Different flowers' quote on calves