Text tattoo ideas

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Black fine line script tattoo reading na mo amituofo along the ribs of a woman wearing a black bra, seen from the side.
Fine script phrase along the ribs
Black script lettering tattoo on the side ribs, with a two-line quote above Roman numerals in a serif font.
Script quote and Roman numerals on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo of the quote 'No matter how far life pulls you back eventually you move forward' with a grey arrow across the ribs.
Quote and arrow tattoo on the ribs
Black fine line script lettering reading NOT all who WANDER are LOST, placed on the lower leg near the ankle.
Quote lettering on a lower leg
Two photographs of small black typewriter-style lettering tattoos on the inner forearm, reading heart over mind and courage over fear, with a dark knit sleeve pushed up.
Typewriter words on forearm: heart, mind, courage, fear
Black script lettering tattoo on the ribs reading Without struggle, There is no progress, shown beside a pink top.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black fine line script tattoo reading These violent delights have violent ends runs along a forearm.
Handwritten quote script along a forearm
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 script lettering tattoo reading every day is the start of something beautiful across the upper chest, near the collarbone, with a grey patterned fleece worn open.
Script quote across the upper chest
Fine line black tattoo of a treble and bass clef forming a heart, with the script words Where words fail, Music speaks below it.
Clef heart and quote tattoo on skin
Two palms face up showing small black typewriter-style lettering on the inner wrists, reading like the wind and i am free.
Two wrist quotes in black lettering
Rear view of two women kneeling side by side in swimwear, with black lettering tattooed across the lower back of the woman on the right.
Lettering tattoo on lower back, two women
Back view of a woman in a blue sports bra with a small black fine line script tattoo reading Run Free on her upper back.
Run Free script on upper back
Black script lettering reading The Pain You Feel Today Is The Strength You'll Have Tomorrow, with a blue awareness ribbon, tattooed on a person's side ribs.
Script quote and blue ribbon on ribs
Black fine line bird silhouettes and lettering tattoos across a woman's upper back, including the word freedom.
Bird and word tattoos across a back
Close-up of the words bad wolf in small lowercase serif lettering in pale grey ink on the side of a torso.
Small lettering reading bad wolf on the side
Fine black Roman numeral tattoo reading XII XIII XXIV in clean lettering on the side of the ribs.
Roman numerals on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo reading "we're all mad here." in a typewriter-style serif font, running across the inside of a forearm.
"We're all mad here" quote on forearm
Small black typewriter-style lettering reading Be good across the middle finger of a hand, in a lettering style.
Be good lettering on a finger
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
Black and grey photograph of the words NORMAL PEOPLE SCARE ME in block lettering tattooed on the inner wrist, with leather and metal bracelets worn below it.
Normal people scare me quote on wrist
Black block lettering reading BEER GOES HERE across the web of a hand between the thumb and index finger, with coloured tattoos partly visible at the edges.
Beer goes here lettering on hand
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
Close view of a woman's lower abdomen at the beach with a small fine line script tattoo reading live love wander, placed above the bikini bottoms.
Small script tattoo on the hip at the beach
Black lettering reading HIC ET NUNC, set in a serif style, running diagonally across a man's forearm.
Hic et nunc lettering on a forearm
Black and grey fine line script tattoo of a three line quote on the ribs, with a hand resting above it.
Script quote along the ribs
Fine line black script reading Saved by Grace with a small cross tattooed on the inside of a forearm.
Saved by Grace script and cross on forearm
Fine line black script tattoo reading don't let your fears win along the inner upper arm.
Script quote on upper arm
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
Close-up of a black typewriter-style lettering tattoo reading I'm a recovering undercover overlover, placed across the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Typewriter quote across the upper back
Two side-by-side photographs of black script lettering tattoos reading I Love her or I Love him, then til death do us part, with a small red heart beside the second.
Matching script lettering tattoos with a heart
Black blackletter-style lettering reading I'M AWSOME across the upper back, shown in a close photo of bare skin.
I'm awsome lettering across upper back
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading I am with you on a pale area of skin, with a dark fabric edge in the corner.
Fine line script reading I am with you
Woman seated with her back to the camera, showing a thin black vertical script tattoo of text running down her spine, in a lettering style on the back.
Vertical script tattoo down the back
Black and grey tattoo of a dandelion releasing seeds that turn into birds, with fine script lettering beneath it, on a person's back.
Dandelion seeds becoming birds with script quote
Black script lettering of a four-line quote tattooed across the inner wrist and lower forearm.
Script quote across the inner wrist
Two wrists gripping a wooden bar, each with a teal lettering tattoo on the inner forearm: Breathe in on the left and Breathe out upside down on the right.
Breathe in and breathe out wrist tattoos
Two people show matching black lettering reading "you're my person" with a small red heart on their calves.
Matching "you're my person" tattoos on calves
Black typewriter-style lettering reading she believed she could so she did, set in a stacked block along the side ribs of a person wearing a black lace bralette.
Typewriter quote lettering on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading 'she wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword' in a serif script.
Quote tattoo: she wasn't looking for a knight
Black script lettering reading a life without love is no life at all, tattooed across the upper back in lettering style.
Script quote across the upper back
Fine black script reading Curiosity often leads to trouble runs along the side of a thigh, below the hem of a grey top.
Quote tattoo along the side of a thigh
Fine line script tattoo of the words God is within her, she will not fall, Psalm 46:5, across the upper back below the shoulder blade.
Psalm 46:5 script quote across the upper back
Close up of a fine line black script tattoo reading 'you are enough' on the inside of a wrist, with a fist raised in the background.
Fine line script 'you are enough' on a wrist
Black fine line lettering forming an infinity symbol with the words Live the life you love, tattooed on the ribs.
Infinity symbol lettering on the ribs
Small black lettering reading let it be on the upper back of a person with brown hair, with a tattooist's gloved finger pointing at it.
Let it be lettering on upper back
Black and white photo of a fine serif lettering tattoo reading I am significant. on the upper back below the shoulder blade, with dark hair falling over the shoulder.
"I am significant" lettering on a shoulder blade
Black script tattoo reading Previously on Lost across the fingers of a hand, with striped fabric in the background.
Previously on Lost script across fingers