Text tattoo ideas

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

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Black and grey fine line tattoo on an upper arm showing a palm tree over water, a crescent moon, a thought bubble reading CAN I LIVE, and several small icons.
Fine line icons and palm tree on upper arm
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I contain multitudes on the inner wrist, photographed with the palm facing up in bright light.
I contain multitudes quote on wrist
Black ink tattoo on a forearm of a triangle and circle enclosing a mockingjay bird, with the words DISTRICT 9 3/4 beneath.
Deathly Hallows and mockingjay on a forearm
Black script tattoo reading i am because you are running diagonally along the inner forearm, in a lettering style.
Script quote on a forearm
Traditional-style tattoo of a scroll banner reading Home is whenever I'm with you, wrapped around teal, orange and yellow feathers on the upper arm.
Feather and banner quote on upper arm
Black fine line script reading Let it go with four small flying birds on the outer ankle and foot.
Let it go script and birds on the ankle
Black and white photo of a bare foot with fine line script lettering reading never stop dancing across the top.
Never stop dancing script on a foot
Sepia drawing of a swallow in flight beside cursive script reading and in time, this too shall pass.
Swallow in flight with cursive quote
Black script tattoo reading "It only takes a little push to pull on through" beside a small outlined heart with an eye, on the upper arm.
Heart and eye with script quote on an arm
Close up of a fine line black script tattoo reading With pain comes strength along the ribs of a person wearing a grey sports bra.
Script quote reading With pain comes strength on ribs
Black and grey upper arm tattoo of a handwritten script verse framed around a pale moon, a dark spiral hill and small star sparkles.
Script verse with spiral hill and moon
Handwritten navy lettering reading I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar, drawn as a lettering design with no body placement shown.
Handwritten quote about a leaf on the wind
Black script lettering set in several vertical lines across the upper back, shown in a close-up photograph of the skin.
Vertical script lettering across upper back
Colour traditional tattoo on a thigh showing two crossed rolling pins, sprinkled donuts, pink daisies and a banner reading Rattle, with the words Bake and Roll.
Donuts and rolling pins on a thigh
Bold black block lettering reading WAL, a star, then MART across the lower back, above jeans and a brown belt.
Bold block lettering across lower back
Black handwritten script lettering tattooed across the upper back near the shoulder, photographed from behind in a car.
Handwritten quote across upper back
Black lettering tattoo on a thigh reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below, against blue fabric.
e.e. cummings quote tattoo on the thigh
Black and grey photo of the words wish you were here tattooed in small serif lettering across a forearm.
Wish you were here lettering on a forearm
Colour lettering tattoo spelling Goonies in a red, orange and yellow gradient with dark outlines, above black lettering reading never say die, on skin.
Goonies logo lettering tattoo
Black fine line tattoo of a soldier outline with a serif quote inside the figure, on skin in black ink.
Soldier outline with quote tattoo
Black line tattoo design of overlapping Gallifreyan-style circles above the words I will love you through all of space and time, with an IPA transcription beneath.
Gallifreyan circles with a love quote
Black script lettering tattoo on the lower back reading Where life begins and love never ends, with Family in larger script beneath.
Script quote tattoo reading Family
Black ink tattoo of a cross with the script words Romans 12:2 on skin, in a lettering style; the body placement is not visible.
Cross and Romans 12:2 script lettering
Close-up of a fine line handwritten script tattoo reading "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?" with a small blue TARDIS, on the upper chest.
Handwritten quote and TARDIS on the chest
Black and grey tattoos on both forearms showing a stack of book spines, large quotation marks and lettering, with small sketched flying figures near the wrist.
Book spines and quotes on both forearms
Two arms with black script lettering on the forearms, one reading For them I'd risk it all and the other reading Because of her I will not fall.
Two script quotes on forearms
Colour tattoo of Captain America's shield with a white star on the inner forearm, above the words Sometimes you have to believe that heroes exist.
Captain America shield with quote on forearm
Black script lettering tattoo running down the outer leg from the upper thigh towards the knee, shown in a lettering style.
Script lettering running down a leg
Black handwritten script lettering on white reading 'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger', shown as a lettering design with no body placement visible.
Handwritten quote, What doesn't kill you
Black typewriter-style lettering reading I am burdened with glorious purpose runs along the side of a torso, shown in two stacked photographs.
Typewriter quote along the side of the ribs
Black linework cartoon cat with pink cheeks and red inner ears, with a Love yourself script across its body, on the upper arm.
Cartoon cat with Love yourself script
Black lettering tattoo of a long passage about passion running vertically down the side of a torso over the ribs.
Passion quote lettering down the side
Fine line black tattoo of a stylised bird above the words remember who you are running down a forearm, with a studded bracelet on the wrist.
Bird outline and script on a forearm
Black and grey fine line lettering reading 'i love you to the moon and back' with a small crescent moon on the inner forearm near the wrist.
Moon and quote on the inner wrist
Black block lettering reading STAY ALIVE with a small line symbol beneath it, tattooed on the inside of a wrist in a simple lettering style.
Stay Alive lettering on a wrist
Raised fist showing a wrist design of black and pink lettering reading I'm with Lucy's hen party, with a pink cocktail glass beneath.
Hen party lettering and cocktail glass on wrist
Black hand-drawn lettering design of phrases arranged in the shape of a cross, shown as a flash-style tattoo design on a white background.
Text cross lettering design
Fine line black script tattoo reading "Smile" on the side of a woman's torso below her shoulder, shown in a close photo of her bare back.
Small script word "Smile" on a ribcage
Black script reading "in a world of my own" with a leaf stroke, running into an outlined daisy on a forearm, in a fine line lettering and botanical style.
Script quote and daisy on a forearm
Three-panel image of a woman's back: a large colour tattoo of a woman's face, red poppies and a pocket watch, and a black-and-grey spine design with a bird-like shape below.
Back tattoos with portrait, poppies and clock
Black handwritten script reading "i love you to the moon and back" with a small black crescent moon on the inner wrist, in a lettering style.
Quote and crescent moon on a wrist
Traditional style flash design of a red rose, pale blue snowflake and yellow flame above a ribbon banner reading KEEP MOVING FORWARD, with no body placement shown.
Rose, snowflake and ribbon quote design
Black lettering tattoo reading Vienna waits for you in cursive script on the inner wrist, shown against a patterned rug.
Script quote reading Vienna waits for you on a wrist
Close-up of a typewriter-style quote, 'Art Is The Weapon Imagination IS The Ammunition', in black ink with multicoloured watercolour splashes on the ribs.
Quote with watercolour splashes on the ribs
Handwritten script reading "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, ok?" beside a blue TARDIS tattoo on the upper chest.
Quote and TARDIS on the upper chest
Black and white photo of a fine-line lettering tattoo reading abis volat propriis on the lower back, above a dark waistband.
Latin script line tattoo on lower back
Fine line black tattoo of a mathematical equation in a serif font on the upper arm.
Mathematical equation on upper arm
Black script lettering reading How we survive is what makes us who we are, tattooed across the ribs with some redness around it.
Script quote tattoo on the ribs