Text tattoo ideas

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Black and grey wrist tattoo of a shaded owl on a branch with a crescent moon and the script words Never lose hope.
Owl on a branch with script on a wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoo in cursive script reading Don't forget to love yourself, running along a forearm in a black and white photograph.
Script quote on a forearm
Two inner wrists with fine line black script tattoos, one reading To Infinity and the other and Beyond.
To Infinity and Beyond script on inner wrists
Colour tattoo of a black semicolon with blue and pink trailing wisps above the words This too shall pass in black script on a forearm.
Semicolon and script quote on forearm
Black serif lettering reading Macbeth and I.iv.50-51 on the inner wrist, in a black and grey lettering style.
Macbeth and a reference line on a wrist
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading "we're all mad here" in a typewriter-style font across the back of a person's neck, with dark hair falling beside it.
Quote tattoo across the back of the neck
Close view of a woman in a blue paisley print t-shirt, with a short line of black script tattoo partly visible on her upper arm.
Black script tattoo on upper arm
Black and grey script tattoo across a person's upper back, reading The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
Quote tattoo across upper back
Pencil drawing of a clenched fist with red nails, showing the words be kind to yourself and a small heart as lettering tattoo design on the forearm.
Be kind to yourself lettering on a drawn wrist
Six gold lettering designs on white backing reading brides maid, wifey and MOH, in brush script and bold block styles, with no body placement shown.
Gold bridesmaid, wifey and MOH lettering designs
Black handwritten lettering design on a white background reading A teenage vow in a parking lot 'til tonight do us part, in a lettering style with no body placement shown.
Handwritten lettering reading a teenage vow
Two people show matching black script lettering on their ribs reading Together forever, never apart, maybe in distance, but never in heart.
Matching quote tattoos on two people's ribs
Black script lettering reading don't blink on a plain white background, shown as a tattoo design with no body placement visible.
Don't blink script lettering design
Black handwritten script lettering design reading it is okay to not be okay, shown on a plain white background with no body part visible.
Script quote: it is okay to not be okay
Black script lettering reading "You can't have love without sacrifice" across the upper back of a person wearing a black top, in a lettering style.
Script quote across upper back
Black script lettering reading 'One day at a time' across the upper back, a lettering tattoo between the shoulder blades.
One day at a time script on upper back
Close view of a fine line script tattoo reading 'to make each day count' along the side ribs, partly under a black garment.
Fine line script quote on the side ribs
Fine line blue script tattoo reading Give me with an arrow, a heart-shaped heartbeat trace and a small paw print, on the upper back.
Give me script with heartbeat and paw print
Realistic black and grey feather tattoo on a forearm, with the script words Not all who wander are lost running beneath it.
Feather and script quote on a forearm
Black and grey realism style forearm tattoo of a mountain range above a pine tree line, with the words think like a mountain and Leopold beneath.
Mountain range and pines with a quote
Black script lettering reading 'there is always hope' on the upper chest near the collarbone, with a fine ball-chain necklace and long hair partly visible.
Script quote reading there is always hope
Traditional style colour tattoo of a pale blue diamond with orange banners reading SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND, on the upper arm.
Diamond with Shine On You Crazy Diamond banners
Black and grey photo of a small solid black cross tattoo with the text 2Cor 12:9 beneath it, placed on the back of the neck.
Cross and scripture reference on the neck
Black lettering tattoo on the inside of a wrist reading ATTITUDE is EVERYTHING, set in a geometric typeface with arrow lines beside the word is.
Attitude is everything wrist lettering
Close-up of a dark script tattoo reading "it's only rock 'n' roll" on the inner forearm of a person with long blonde hair and silver rings.
Script quote on a forearm
Black brush lettering reading Trust No Bitch across a woman's upper arm, shown in a bold lettering style.
Trust No Bitch lettering on upper arm
Black serif Roman numerals reading P. IV. XIII run vertically across the side of a torso, with a black garment at the edge of the frame.
Roman numerals P. IV. XIII on the side
Close-up of a small black handwritten GRL PWR lettering tattoo on a forearm, with a hand with red nails resting beside it.
GRL PWR lettering on a forearm
Black and white photo of a fine line script lettering tattoo across the ribs, reading Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words.
Script quote on the ribs
Black script lettering tattoo reading Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, placed on the side of the torso above the hip.
Two-line script quote tattoo on the side torso
Black typewriter-style lettering tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder blade, set out as two lines of text.
Two-line quote across the upper back
Black lettering tattoo reading 'we accept the love we think we deserve' in a typewriter-style font across the upper back below the shoulder blade.
Quote tattoo across the upper back
Black lettering on a woman's ribs reading 'she believed she could so she did' in a typewriter-style font, set in a stacked, left-aligned block.
Typewriter quote along the ribs
Black and grey fine line tattoo of the words you are beautiful, you are valuable, you are enough, with small birds, on a forearm.
Quote and birds on a forearm
Black lettering tattoo on the side of a torso in a bold, rounded typeface, reading a six-line quote about togetherness, placed on the ribs.
Quote lettering tattoo along the ribs
Woman seen from behind with a small black lettering quote tattoo across the lower back, above the waistband of black trousers.
Small lettering quote on lower back
Black ink tattoo of a circular flower inside a ring of block-capital text, placed on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Circular flower and quote on a forearm
Black line drawing of the words you are my anchor in handwritten lettering, above an anchor whose shank forms a heart, suitable as a lettering and anchor tattoo design.
You are my anchor lettering with anchor and heart
Sketchy black and red linework tattoo of three faces on a man's upper back, with vertical lettering running down the left side of the spine.
Three faces and vertical lettering on a back
Two black script lettering tattoos, one reading Don't live in fear of the future on a forearm and one reading 'Cause I'll always be there on a shoulder.
Script quotes on forearm and shoulder
Black lettering tattoo in flowing script reading Our scars remind us that the past is real, across a person's upper back.
Script quote across upper back
Black fine line tattoos on a bare arm, including the lettering We can be heroes, a small sweet, a sunburst and an X, with a solid black rectangle above the sweet.
Small lettering and icon tattoos on an arm
Black ink tattoo of the words So it goes. with a small fine line starburst below it, on the back of a woman's neck.
Quote and starburst at the nape of the neck
Black and white photo of a woman's bare back showing a fine line Greek lettering tattoo running vertically down the centre of the spine.
Greek lettering down the spine
Foot tattoo of the words Live Laugh Love in black script with outlined purple stars, blue sparkles and a black tribal swirl with hearts, on the top of the foot.
Live Laugh Love script and stars on a foot
Black and grey lettering tattoo on the inner forearm, with a quote and a triangle symbol in the upper photo and a second quote in the lower photo.
Two quotes tattooed along a forearm
Black script lettering reading You'll never live if you're just too scared to die, tattooed on a forearm in black ink.
Script quote tattoo on an arm
Small black Hebrew lettering tattoo on the top of a foot near the ankle, with a black flip-flop strap and pink toenails visible.
Hebrew script tattoo on a foot