Text tattoo ideas

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Black typewriter-style lettering reading I'll be one tough act to follow runs along the inner forearm.
Quote lettering along a forearm
Black script lettering on a forearm reads I looked in the mirror, & Decided to stay, set against patterned fabric.
Script quote on a forearm
Black and grey fine line drawing of a bird with an arrow beneath the words Hope is the only thing stronger than fear, set on a white background.
Bird and arrow with quote design
Black ink tattoo across a person's upper back showing the words JUST DO IT in bold block capitals above a large solid black swoosh curve, in a lettering style.
Just Do It lettering and swoosh on a back
Black hand-lettered tattoo reading DO NOT RESUSCITATE on the upper chest, with a striped shirt being held open around it.
Do Not Resuscitate lettering on a chest
Black script lettering reading Soul Sister on the lower back, shown on two people side by side in a black and white photo.
Matching Soul Sister script tattoos
Close-up of a black typewriter-style tattoo reading don't blink on the upper chest near the collarbone, with blonde hair and a grey top visible.
Don't blink lettering on the upper chest
Black handwritten script tattoo reading What We Do In Life and Echoes In Eternity across the side of the ribs.
Two-line quote in script on the side ribs
Black script lettering tattoo on the back of a hand, which rests on a black object wrapped in plastic.
Script lettering tattoo on the hand
Black lettering tattoo on a person's upper back reading 'It takes courage to grow up and become who you truly are', with scrolled flourishes above and below and an attribution to e.e. cummings.
Quote lettering across upper back
Black fine line tattoo on the side ribs of a person, showing a heartbeat line that forms a cross on the left and a heart on the right, with the words Faith Hope Love beneath.
Heartbeat cross and heart on the ribs
Black Arabic script reading Just breathe, with the English translation in a typewriter-style serif beneath, on a plain white background.
Arabic lettering reading Just breathe
Black and white photo of a vertical line of runic-style lettering tattooed along the side of a person's torso, in a fine line lettering style.
Vertical runic lettering along the side of the torso
Black lettering tattoo in script reading God Is A Awesome God, curved across the upper chest below the collarbones, shown in two stacked photos.
Script phrase across the upper chest
Black blackletter lettering in four lines runs down the side of a torso, forming a quote about hope beneath it all.
Blackletter quote along the side ribs
Back of a person's neck with vertical rainbow stripe tattoo above black block lettering reading NOT CRYING ON SUNDAYS.
Rainbow stripes and lettering on the neck
Close-up of a black script tattoo reading "i felt free" on a person's shoulder, with a black strap and a thin chain visible.
"i felt free" script on shoulder
Black and white photo of a forearm with a quote tattooed in black serif lettering, with a band of symbols near the wrist.
Quote lettering on a forearm
Black and grey tattoo of a cowboy riding a galloping horse beside the words cow girls don't cry ride baby ride, on a person's upper back.
Rodeo rider on horseback with lettering on upper back
Black script lettering tattoo of a four-line quote running along the side of a person's hip or upper thigh.
Script quote tattoo along the side of the hip
Cartoon lion cub curled up in soft tan and green ink, with the words kumbuka wewe ninoni in black script above, tattooed on the side of the body.
Lion cub and script on the side
Black fine line tattoo on a forearm of a paper plane with a dashed flight path looping beneath it and the words Act on your impulse running along the path.
Paper plane and dashed flight path on forearm
Woman seen from behind with a black fine line script tattoo running vertically down the side of her back, placed beside her shoulder blade.
Fine script lettering down the back
Black typewriter-style lettering reading 'we live with the scars we choose' on the side of the torso.
Typewriter quote tattoo on the side
Black script lettering tattoo on the outer thigh, set in four lines of text reading a quote about forgiveness.
Quote lettering on a thigh
Black and grey realism tattoo of an anatomical heart with lines of text across it, on a thigh, shown beside a paper printout of the same heart outline.
Anatomical heart with text on a thigh
Black and grey tattoo of a shaded dog face surrounded by meme-style words such as wow and such rebl, on the outer thigh.
Doge-style dog meme tattoo on a thigh
Black pixel-style lettering reading HM04 on the inner upper arm of a flexed arm, against a dark blind backdrop.
Pixel lettering HM04 on upper arm
Black and white photo of a fine line unicorn head tattoo with the words HOW EMBARRASSING TO BE HUMAN beside it, on the inner forearm.
Unicorn and quote on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo reading 'my story isn't over' with semicolons, placed on the inner wrist of a raised fist.
Semicolon quote on the inner wrist
Black linework lotus mandala tattoo with dotted lines, a star and crescent moon, and pink, purple and blue watercolour splashes on the inner forearm.
Lotus mandala with star and moon on forearm
Black script lettering reading I'll never give up, I'm a fighter across the inner upper arm, with a few small red marks near the text.
Script quote on the upper arm
Black ink tattoo of two running shoe sole prints on the shoulder, one reading 13.1 miles and the other 26.2 miles.
Two running shoe prints with mileage text
Black and grey engraving-style tattoo on an upper arm showing two skeletal figures fighting with swords, with a banner reading triumph of being alive.
Skeletal combat scene with banner on upper arm
Colour cartoon brontosaurus looking up at a flaming meteor, with the word Dangit beneath, tattooed on the ribs above a grey banner and heart.
Cartoon dinosaur and meteor on ribs
Black lettering tattoo reading pura in a clean sans serif, set vertically down the back of a person's neck.
Vertical word tattoo on the back of the neck
Black lettering in a typewriter-style font reading find what you love and let it kill you, tattooed along a forearm.
Quote tattoo on a forearm
Black and grey lettering tattoo of a quotation with the attribution Dr. M.L.K jr, set in lines down the inner forearm.
Quotation lettering on a forearm
Black fish skeleton tattoo running down a leg, with an inch ruler along the spine, fish names and a small red and blue Texas outline near the knee.
Fish skeleton and ruler on a calf
Colour tattoo of a parent holding a child in a black outline with blue and teal shading, with Italian script below, on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Parent and child with Italian script on upper back
Black script lettering tattoo reading Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today, across a forearm in a black and grey style.
Script quote tattoo on a forearm
Black linework tattoo on the side ribs showing a cross, a heartbeat line that rises into an outlined heart, and small text reading faith, hope, love.
Cross, heartbeat and heart on ribs
Two photos of black script lettering tattoos: "I'm fine" on the back of a leg, and "save me" on an ankle.
"I'm fine" and "save me" script tattoos
Close-up of a fine line lettering tattoo reading Be just and fear not in dark ink on the inner wrist.
Be just and fear not quote on wrist
Black script lettering reading not all those who wander are lost, with two small bird silhouettes, tattooed along the lower leg in a lettering style.
Script quote and birds on a lower leg