Text tattoo ideas

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Black ink drawing on paper of two semicolons with the hand-lettered words OUR STORIES and WILL NEVER END, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Semicolon with hand-lettered quote design
Black ink handwritten script reading choose joy on a pale grey background, drawn as a lettering design for a tattoo with no body placement shown.
Choose joy handwritten lettering design
Pencil drawing of three owls perched on a branch above the words Nobody's Perfect in ornate block lettering, with a fourth owl hanging upside down, drawn on wood-grain paper.
Owls on a branch with Nobody's Perfect lettering
Traditional style flash design of a red and white ball above a red polka dot flower and a blue rose, with gold banners reading I and CHOOSE YOU and YOU.
Poke Ball and rose flash with I choose you banners
Black line drawing of ornate script lettering decorated with flowers, hearts and dotted outlines, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Script lettering design with flowers
Black ink lettering design of a feather and a flock of birds beside the script words Your Wings Were Ready But My Heart Was Not, on a white feathered background.
Feather, birds and script quote design
Pen sketch of a spine and pelvis in shaded ink on white, with the handwritten caption "that's hip." beneath it.
Spine and pelvis sketch with hip pun
Black handwritten script reading Be true to who you are on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Be true to who you are handwritten script
Black lettering design forming a running shoe silhouette, with words including inspiration, courage, determination and every step counts.
Running shoe made of motivational words
Black line drawing of the words HIS, grace and IS SUFFICIENT in a mix of block capitals and flowing script, with horizontal rules, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
His grace is sufficient lettering design
Black handwritten script reading inhale confidence, exhale doubt, drawn in thin black ink on a white background.
Inhale confidence, exhale doubt script
Ink design of the Deathly Hallows symbol, a triangle, circle and vertical line, with ribbon banners reading The last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death, shown as a flash drawing.
Deathly Hallows symbol with quote banners
Black and grey flash design of a lighthouse, crescent moons, flowers and a ribbon banner reading We found love in the dark, in a traditional style.
Lighthouse and ribbon banner flash design
Thin black script reading Someday followed by three dots, shown as a fine line lettering tattoo design on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Someday script lettering design
Black and grey engraved-style anchor design wrapped in rope, with smoky shading behind and a quote beneath it, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Engraved anchor with rope and quote
Black typewriter-style lettering reading "but first, tea" on a white background, with a distressed stamp-like texture, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
But first, tea lettering design
Black and white sheet of temporary tattoo designs reading No Regerts in bold, serif and blackletter lettering, shown in several sizes.
No Regerts lettering flash sheet
Traditional style flash drawing of two purple conversation hearts, one reading FOREVER and the other WHAT-EVER, with leaves and a banner at the edges, shown without a body placement.
Conversation hearts reading forever and whatever
Black hand-lettered quote 'Don't tell people your plans. Show them your results.' curved in an arch on a white background.
Arched quote lettering design
Flash design of a black-outlined ribbon banner with green shading carrying the lettering IN THE WAVES OF CHANGE WE FIND OUR TRUE DIRECTION, shown on a speckled background.
Ribbon banner with a lettered quote
Black flourished lettering design reading Not all who wander are lost, set in mixed capitals and swash letters on a plain white background.
Not all who wander are lost lettering
Black brush-style lettering design repeating the word HAHA in staggered, overlapping rows, shown as a flash drawing with no body placement.
Haha brush lettering design
Black line drawing of the words OFF WITH HER HEAD arranged in the shape of a playing card club, with a spiral in the top lobe, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement.
Off with her head lettering in a club shape
Black and white line drawing of a palm tattoo design with symbols on the fingers, a sunburst eye and the words Deus Ex Machina, in a blackwork and geometric style.
Palm design with sunburst eye and numerals
Pencil and ink sketch of a small girl with her hair in a bun, holding balloon strings behind her back, with the words Sometimes you have to let go, to be able to move on around a circle.
Girl releasing balloons with circular quote sketch
Pen sketch of a tattoo design on lined paper showing a semicolon above the words INHALE and EXHALE, with two opposing arrows between them.
Inhale and exhale semicolon design sketch
Handwritten black ink script on white paper reading I exist as I am, that is enough, with an attribution beneath, shown as a lettering design with no body placement.
Handwritten quote in script
Black ink hand-lettered script with flourished swashes reading "Shit's totally fucked, let's eat pizza", with a small pizza slice drawn below, sketched in a notebook.
Hand-lettered script with pizza slice sketch
Black line drawing of a circular seal of interlocking arcs, circles and lines above the words I'M NOT BROKEN., with no body part shown.
Circular seal design with the words I'M NOT BROKEN.
Pencil sketch of a single balloon on a long thin string, with the words let it go beneath it, suited to a fine line tattoo design.
Balloon with the words let it go
Black line drawing of a heartbeat trace forming a cross that ends in a heart, with the words Faith, Hope, Love beneath it on a white background.
Heartbeat cross with Faith, Hope, Love
Black hand-drawn outline of a bow above the handwritten words 'a girl without a bow is not a girl' on a cream background, shown as a flash-style design.
Bow and handwritten quote design
Black script lettering arranged in the shape of a cross on a white background, a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Cross-shaped script lettering design
Black lotus flower design above the word Namaste and a short verse about honouring others, shown as a black-ink design on a white background.
Lotus with Namaste verse
Black silhouette flash design of two swallows in flight above the words we only part to meet again, in a serif typeface on a white background.
Two swallows above a quote
Black brush lettering design on a white background reading Curiosity did not kill this cat, set in three slanted lines with underlines, shown as a lettering tattoo design.
Curiosity did not kill this cat lettering
Black script lettering reading if you can't live longer, live deeper, with a small aeroplane silhouette below, shown as a tattoo design on a sepia background with no body part visible.
Script quote with small aeroplane design
Nine small white lettering designs in gold and dark brown script, mostly reading just drunk, with one reading drunk in love, arranged on a white surface.
Just drunk lettering designs in gold script
Black ink handwritten script on white paper reading "don't let idiots ruin your day" in three lines, a lettering design suitable for a tattoo.
Handwritten lettering: don't let idiots ruin your day
Black script lettering design on a white background, with Arabic calligraphy above the English words "If it's meant to be, It will be."
Arabic and English quote lettering design
Black ink drawing of a swallow above a speech-bubble shape containing the handwritten quote about desire and fire, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Swallow and quote design on paper
Black script lettering reading My Story Isn't Over, with a large solid black semicolon above and below it, on a plain white background as a lettering tattoo design.
Semicolon with My Story Isn't Over script
Pencil sketch design of a heart filled with rib-like lines, with the words hearts are wild creatures, that's why our ribs are cages curving around it.
Heart rib cage pencil sketch with quote
Black script lettering reading angel face and devil thoughts on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design rather than on skin.
Angel face and devil thoughts lettering
Hand-drawn flash design of a crosshatched ribbon banner wrapping vertically, with the lettering 'You are what you love not who loves you' in black on a purple background.
Ribbon banner with 'You are what you love' lettering
Black script lettering reading Just Breathe with a full stop, shown as a tattoo design on a plain white background with no body placement visible.
Just Breathe script lettering design
Fine line lettering design reading WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the I, on a plain white background.
WARR;OR lettering design
Black and grey ink drawing of a ribcage, spine and pelvis entwined with flowers and leaves inside a dotted circle, labelled Libra, as a tattoo design.
Libra skeleton and flowers design