Text tattoo ideas

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Black and grey ink drawing of a giraffe with its neck curled round, with a line of text running down the neck in a lettering design.
Giraffe neck with quote lettering
Back view of a person with long dark hair, showing a small black lettering tattoo of Roman numerals on the shoulder.
Small Roman numerals on the upper back
Black script lettering reading All good things are wild and free across the ribs, a lettering tattoo in black ink on bare skin.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs
Small red lettering tattoo of a short phonetically spelled word on the lower back, above dark camouflage leggings.
Small red word tattoo on the lower back
Black script lettering reading It's More Than Just A Game above and below a shaded grey hockey trophy and a red winged emblem, tattooed on an upper arm.
Hockey trophy and red wing with script quote
Fine line black tattoo on a wrist showing an infinity symbol, three birds in flight and the word faith with heb 11:1 written beside it.
Infinity symbol with birds and faith script
Close photo of a lettering tattoo on the inner wrist, a black serif quote with a small red lips motif, on a pink textured background.
Bachelorette quote and red lips on wrist
Back of a person with a thin black script lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of the spine, shown on bare skin.
Vertical script line along the spine
Black script lettering reading Your heart beats no matter how much pain you are in, across the hip in a lettering style.
Script quote along the hip
Black ink typewriter-style lettering reading 'To live is the rarest thing' on the left side of a person's ribs, with a dark garment pulled up beside it.
Quote lettering on the ribs in black ink
White cursive lettering reading Stay Strong with a small outlined heart on a black background, a black and grey lettering design.
Stay Strong script lettering with a heart
Small black lettering tattoo of a copyright symbol and the year 1982 on the side of an ankle.
Copyright symbol and 1982 on an ankle
Black script lettering reading "it is well" with a line over the word "it" on a plain white background, shown as a lettering design.
"it is well" script lettering design
Black typewriter-style lettering reading FIGHT OFF YOUR DEMONS. across the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Fight off your demons quote on a forearm
Colour tattoo of two blue birds on a branch with yellow, red and orange flowers and the words every little thing will be alright, in script on the inner forearm.
Blue birds, flowers and script quote on a forearm
Two inner wrists side by side, each with a black script quote tattoo: the left reads What God has joined together and the right reads Let no man separate.
Matching script quote tattoos on inner wrists
Black serif lettering tattoo on a forearm reading "We are a part of you, invisible to anyone else".
Serif quote tattoo on the forearm
Fine line black tattoo of a giraffe formed from the words stand tall, placed on the upper back near the shoulder.
Giraffe made of script on the shoulder
Black lettering tattoo of two lines of Roman numerals on the inner forearm near the wrist, in a serif lettering style.
Roman numerals on the inner wrist
Close-up of a black script lettering tattoo reading Don't forget to love yourself, placed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote reading Don't forget to love yourself
Black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back reads nothing of me is original, with the person's face out of frame.
Typewriter quote tattoo across upper back
Black script lettering on a forearm reading "Don't let the past make your dicisions, for today", shown in a black and grey tattoo.
Script quote on a forearm
Fine line script tattoo reading be happy, with a thin wavy line beneath it, on the upper arm.
Be happy script on upper arm
Colour tattoo of a yellow-gold towel with black lettering reading The Terrible Towel, A Pittsburgh Original, across the forearm.
The Terrible Towel forearm tattoo
Black script lettering reading God is within her, she will not fall, tattooed on the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote on upper chest
Black script lettering reading Leaving behind my minor life for grander maybes, with small underline flourishes, on skin at the side of the hip above a patterned fabric strap.
Script quote tattoo on the side of the hip
Black and grey lettering tattoo on a forearm reading you see flowers in these weeds, beside a dandelion seed head with drifting seeds.
Quote and dandelion seed head on a forearm
Black line tattoo of three periodic table element boxes spelling THINK, with Th for thorium, In for indium and K for potassium, in lettering style on skin.
THINK spelt in periodic table element tiles
Fine line black script tattoo reading One step at a time with infinity symbols, placed on the side of an ankle.
One step at a time script with infinity symbols on ankle
Black ink lettering on a forearm in a typewriter-style font, reading so please forgive what i have done, no you can't stay mad at the setting sun.
Four lines of text on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading what matters most is how well you walk through the fire, with a peace symbol at the wrist end, on a forearm.
Script quote and peace symbol on a forearm
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Love always, Charlie across the outer lower leg, in a lettering tattoo.
Love always, Charlie lettering on a leg
Black and grey photograph of a block lettering tattoo on the inner forearm near the wrist, reading WORDS FAIL with MUSIC SPEAKS upside down beneath it.
Words fail, music speaks lettering on a forearm
Black and grey script reading Believe in the run with a winged running shoe tattoo on the side of a foot near the ankle.
Believe in the run script and winged shoe on a foot
Close-up of a fine black script tattoo reading The rest is still unwritten... across the upper chest near the collarbone.
Script quote reading The rest is still unwritten
Black and grey tattoo on the side of the ribs showing two lines of latitude and longitude coordinates framing a central ornamental scroll motif with tapered points.
Coordinates and ornament on the ribs
Close-up photo of a yellow heart with a red outline and black handwritten script reading 'because you're mine I walk the line' on skin.
Yellow heart with script lyric tattoo
Close-up of the words stand strong in black script lettering tattooed on the ankle and foot.
Stand strong script on an ankle
Black ink tattoo of a Deathly Hallows symbol with lettering arranged around it, across the middle of a person's back.
Deathly Hallows symbol with quotation on back
Black script lettering reading He walks with me... runs along the outer side of an ankle, with pink painted toenails visible at the edge of the frame.
Script quote along the ankle
Black script lettering tattooed along the side of the ribs, reading a line of text in a flowing handwritten style.
Script quote along the ribs
Black lettering tattoo on the side of a thigh reading so hold your head up high and know it's not the end of the road, set in a serif typeface.
Quote lettering along the side of a thigh
Close-up of a woman's shoulders showing two black fine line script quote tattoos, one on each collarbone near the shoulder.
Two script quotes along the collarbones
Fine line black tattoo of a heartbeat trace running into the script words Just live, on the upper chest.
Heartbeat line with Just live script
Close-up of a black and grey lettering tattoo on the back, reading you are every reason every hope and every dream ive ever had in a typewriter-style font.
Typewriter quote tattoo on the back
Black fine line script tattoo reading "Take these broken wings and learn to fly" with a small bird silhouette on the forearm.
Quote and bird on a forearm
Black and grey script tattoo reading Free Yourself on the inner forearm, with a shaded feather and a flock of birds flying off to the right.
Free yourself script with feather and birds
Two black script lettering tattoos on the upper arms, one beginning Remind me and the other reading When everything else is gone.
Matching script quote tattoos on upper arms