Text tattoo ideas

2,685 photos and flash · 86% Lettering, 26% Fine line · Forearm most common

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Close-up photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading life is beautiful on the side of a thigh, with white lace underwear visible above it.
Life is beautiful script on the thigh
Black script lettering tattoo on an upper arm reading: our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean.
Wave quote lettering on an upper arm
Fine line black lettering tattoo of coordinates with degree symbols, placed across the upper back of a woman in a white lace bodysuit and jeans.
Coordinate line tattoo across upper back
Black script lettering reading 'What if I fall? But my darling, What if you fly?' on the upper back near the shoulder blade.
Script quote on upper back
Black handwritten lettering reading Chasing the original high across the upper chest, partly shown as a white shirt is pulled aside.
Chasing the original high quote on chest
Black and pale ink snakes coil together on a forearm above the words don't panic in script, in a blackwork and dotwork style.
Intertwined snakes and script on a forearm
Inner wrist with a lettering tattoo of a bachelorette party slogan beside two pink martini glasses, shown in black and pink ink on the forearm.
Bachelorette slogan with martini glasses on wrist
Black and grey fine script tattoo reading lux in tenebris along the forearm, shown in a black and white photograph.
Lux in tenebris script on a forearm
Black line drawing of a hand-drawn sun with rays, with the words LIFE IS TOUGH BUT SO ARE YOU lettered inside the circle, shown as a tattoo design on white.
Line drawn sun with lettered quote
Black lettering reading diabetic in a typewriter style, with a thin arrow below it that has a yellow tip, on the inside of a wrist.
Diabetic word and arrow on a wrist
Black script lettering on an arm reading Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed, set over two lines.
Script quote across the upper arm
Black script tattoo reading The pain you feel today... is the strength you feel tomorrow, sitting along the lower back above a waistband.
Script quote tattoo on lower back
Black serif lettering reading "we're all mad here" across the inner forearm, in a fine-line style.
We're all mad here lettering on a forearm
Black typewriter-style lettering reading a short quote runs along a forearm, with a dark knit sleeve pulled over the wrist.
Quote in typewriter lettering on a forearm
Fine line script tattoo reading I solemnly swear that I am up to no good, with a trail of footprints, across the upper back.
Quote script and footprints across upper back
Black script tattoo reading Walk by faith, not by sight beside an ornate cross, inked along the outer side of a foot in black and grey.
Cross and script quote on a foot
Black script tattoo reading 'You only live once' across the side of the torso, near the ribs.
Script quote tattoo on the side
Close photo of a small black lettering tattoo reading "let it be" on a person's forearm, with a grey and red sleeve and a blurred background.
"let it be" lettering on a forearm
Colour tattoo of a dark green giraffe head rising from a pink circle above the words GIRAFFIC PARK in a parody of the Jurassic Park logo.
Giraffic Park logo parody tattoo
Black and grey script lettering reading The Good Times Are Killing Me, with looping flourishes, across the ribs.
Script quote across the ribs
Traditional style colour tattoo on an upper arm showing a pocket watch with Roman numerals, a banner reading CAN'T KEEP UP, a red rose and green leaves.
Pocket watch and rose with banner
Black and grey fine serif lettering reading tempus neminem manet across the upper back near the shoulder blade, with a hand resting on the shoulder.
Latin lettering across upper back
Close-up of a fine line Arabic script lettering tattoo in black ink across the inner wrist, with the fingers and grey nail polish visible above.
Arabic script quote on inner wrist
Black handwritten lettering reading "you are art" across a person's inner forearm, near the wrist, in a fine line lettering style.
Handwritten "you are art" on the forearm
Upper back tattoo of block lettering reading Clearly I have made some bad decisions, with red and black shading on the letters.
Block lettering quote across a back
Black and grey fine line script reading fri som en fågel with a small swallow on a person's upper back, placed between the shoulder blades.
Script lettering and swallow on upper back
Black script lettering of a short rhyming poem across a person's upper back, with a pink wall and posters behind.
Rhyming poem script across upper back
Black ink script lettering reading "Fuck the Systsem" in three lines across a forearm, in a lettering style.
Handwritten slogan tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey realism back tattoo of a large raven in flight with smaller birds, German text and a vertical brushstroke ladder motif.
Raven in flight across a back piece
Black typewriter-style lettering reading walk by faith across the top of a foot, with a denim jean cuff visible above the ankle.
Walk by faith lettering on a foot
Black and grey script lettering reading For her I'd risk it all on a forearm, with a second line, Because of her I will not fall, on the other arm.
Script quotes on two forearms
Black script lettering reading a four-line rhyming poem across a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Four-line poem in script across the back
Black script lettering reading There is Beauty in Brokenness across the collarbone, in a fine line lettering style.
Script quote across the collarbone
Fine line black script tattoo reading what if you fly on the side of a torso, with pink lace lingerie along the bottom edge of the image.
Fine line script reading what if you fly
Close-up of a finger with the words Trick or Treat in pale script lettering beside a small skull tattoo, in a fine line style.
Trick or treat script and skull on a finger
Close photo of the words 'This is not for you.' tattooed in black typewriter-style lettering across the upper back.
Typewriter-style quote on upper back
Fine line black script reading most ardently on the side of the ribs, photographed on pale skin beside a green top.
Most ardently script on the ribs
Black ink tattoo of a shaded feather with birds lifting away and a handwritten quote in script, across the upper back and shoulder blade.
Feather and quote on a shoulder blade
Colour tattoo on the top of a foot showing the words We're All Mad Here in dark script lettering beside a pink and purple Cheshire Cat, in a lettering style.
We're All Mad Here lettering and Cheshire Cat on a foot
Black and white photo of a woman seen from behind in a hot tub, with a small lettering tattoo of a two-line quote across her upper back.
Small quote tattoo on upper back
Black tattoo of three tanks above the words 'We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane' on the outer thigh.
Tanks above a quote on the thigh
Black ink line drawing of a skull with botanical foliage, a bee in an oval frame and the words Taurus and let none be the noose, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Skull, foliage and bee Taurus flash design
Fine line black lettering of a quote arranged in a circle around an ankle, with two hands holding the foot against a wooden floor.
Circular quote tattoo around an ankle
Black fine line script tattoo reading Give me strength when I'm standing and faith when I fall, across the back below the shoulder blade.
Script quote tattoo on the back
Black typewriter-style lettering reading Heart of a Lion across the upper chest, shown in a close photo.
Heart of a Lion lettering on chest
Black script lettering reading Love like Crazy with a small pink heart, tattooed across the top of a foot with pink painted toenails.
Love like crazy script on the foot
Black ink lettering tattoo on a forearm reading THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS FREEDOM inside a thin square frame, against a mountain photograph backdrop.
Framed quote on a forearm
Two people show black script tattoos on their lower backs, one reading Everyday for the and the other reading rest of our lives.
Matching script text on two lower backs