Text tattoo ideas

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Close view of a black script lettering tattoo on the right side of the ribs, above a gold waist chain, with a beige bralette visible at the top of the frame.
Script lettering tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey fine line eye inside a triangle with small text around it on the upper arm, and 'be strong girl' lettering on the ribs.
Eye in triangle and 'be strong girl' lettering
Black and white photo of a black script tattoo reading alis volat propriis along the side of the ribs, in a lettering style.
Latin script phrase along the ribs
Black and grey script lettering reading All God's Angels Come To Us Disguised across the ribs, in a lettering style with a fine, even stroke.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black and grey realistic scroll tattoo with the lettering you can run from your problems but you can't run from yourself, on the side of the ribs.
Scroll with quote on the side
Fine line black script lettering reading with pain comes strength, placed along the side of the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Fine line black script quote tattooed along the side of a ribcage, reading life is not measured by the number of breaths we take.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Realistic fine line humpback whale tattoo in grey ink on the side of a torso, with the words Pro memoria written above it.
Humpback whale with script on the ribs
Black script tattoo reading Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your Heart, with two black paw prints, on the side of a torso.
Paw prints and quote on the ribs
Black and grey fine line script tattoo reading 'To die will be an awfully big adventure' along the ribs, with a hand resting on the chest.
Script quote tattoo along the ribs
Black serif lettering tattoo on the ribs reading 'If you don't swim you'll drown', with a white shirt pulled up beside it.
Quote tattoo on the ribs
Black script lettering reading "We are the kids your parents warned you about" along the side of a ribcage, worn with a white open-back vest.
Script quote along the ribs
Black Devanagari script tattoo on the side of the ribs, shown beside a blue patterned dress held by a hand.
Devanagari script tattoo on the ribs
Black lettering tattoo reading she believed she could so she did, set in a typewriter-style font along the side of the ribs.
Quote lettering along the ribs
Black fine line tattoo on the side of the ribs showing a cross joined to a heartbeat line that ends in an outlined heart, with the words FAITH. HOPE. LOVE beneath.
Heartbeat cross and heart with faith, hope, love
Black lettering tattoo reading Too Weird To Live Too Rare To Die with small bird silhouettes, placed on the side of the ribs.
Too weird to live quote on ribs
Black fine line script lettering reading stinate, headstrong girl across the ribs, with grey fabric draped over the top of the frame.
Script quote along the ribs
Black script lettering tattooed across the ribs in a curved, stacked quotation, in a lettering style on a side torso.
Script quotation along the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'to love another person is to see the face of God' with a small cross, tattooed across the ribs.
Script quote with cross on ribs
Black lettering tattoo of a quote set in short lines running diagonally across the side of a bare back and ribs, with a blue-tinted photo.
Lettering quote along the side of the ribs
Close-up of black typewriter-style lettering reading "the past is practice" across a bare torso, placed on the ribs.
"the past is practice" lettering on ribs
Black fine line bell curve above a quote in black lettering, tattooed on the side of a person's ribs.
Bell curve and quote on the ribs
Black and grey script tattoo reading the sun will soon rise above the shadow, with a sun above and a crescent moon below, on the side of a torso.
Sun, moon and script quote on the side ribs
Black script lettering tattooed on the side ribs reads I gave them life, they gave me a reason to live.
Script quote along the ribs
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Life's a tangled web across the ribs, in a lettering style tattoo on bare skin.
Life's a tangled web lettering on the ribs
Black and grey typewriter lettering reading I told you to be patient, fine, balanced, kind, across the side of the ribs.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded wing with the script words Tomorrow is never promised Just live, on the side of the ribs.
Wing and script quote on the ribs
Colour tattoo of a red rose with green leaves and dark blue script text on the side of a torso, shown on the ribs.
Rose and script quote on ribs
Close-up of a black fine script lettering tattoo of four lines of text on the left side ribs of a woman wearing a black bikini.
Script lettering quote on side ribs
Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading I could be destroyed but not defeated, with a small flourish, on the side of a torso above the ribs.
Script quote on the ribs
Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading alis volat propriis along the ribs, with the arm raised and a grey and maroon striped top visible.
Latin script tattoo on the ribs
Traditional style tattoo on the side of the body showing grey cat paws above a red flower and green leaves, with the words Only my cat can judge me.
Cat paws and flower with slogan on the side
Black script lettering reading God is within her, She will not fail, with a small arrow below, tattooed on a person's ribs in a Lettering style.
Script quote and arrow on ribs
Black and grey script lettering reading Never regret anything that once made you smile across the ribs, with a hand resting above it.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Black script lettering quoting Proverbs 31:25 runs down the side of a person's ribs, with a pink bikini strap and grey top visible above.
Scripture quote along the ribs
Colour tattoo of a smiling sun above a black cloud with raindrops, with the words Stay strong beautiful on the side of the ribs.
Sun and cloud quote tattoo on ribs
Black script tattoo reading One Life Live It across the side ribs, with the edge of a black lace bra visible above it.
One Life Live It script on ribs
Black lettering tattoo in a typewriter-style font reading There will come a time, you'll see, with no more tears, set across the ribs of a person whose face is not shown.
Quote tattoo along the ribs
Black script lettering tattoo on a person's side ribs reading She is clothed in strength and dignity and she laughs without fear of the future, Proverbs 31:25.
Proverbs 31:25 script quote on ribs
Two fine line script tattoos reading sunshine phrases, one along the ribs and one on the inner forearm, in black ink.
Matching sunshine script on ribs and forearm
Black script lettering tattoo on a person's ribs reading Let all that you do be done in love, 1 Corinthians 16:14.
Scripture script tattoo on ribs
Black script lettering reading Take me as I am or watch me as I go, tattooed in two lines across the ribs.
Script quote along the ribs
Fine line black script reading memento mori running vertically along the ribs of a woman whose black top is pulled up to the side.
Memento mori script on ribs
Black and grey photo of a small fine line GRL PWR lettering tattoo on the side ribs, below a lifted grey sweater and above jeans.
GRL PWR lettering on the ribs
Black script lettering reading 'For one so small, you seem so strong' across the side of the ribs, in a Lettering style.
Script quote along the ribs
Black script lettering of a poem verse across the side of a torso, placed on the ribs.
Poem verse in script along the ribs
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