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60+ Tattoo Quotes – Short and Inspirational Quotes for Tattoos

Using Quotes for tattoos are some of the most highly requested tattoo designs today.  Below are some of most highly requested types of quotes and some suggestions for you quote enthusiast:

Contents

  • 1 Different Categories of Tattoo Quotes
    • 1.1 Love Tattoo Quotes for Men & Women
    • 1.2 Latin Quotes for Tattoos
    • 1.3 Inspirational Tattoo Quotes
    • 1.4 Life Quotes for Tattoos
    • 1.5 Bible Tattoo Quotes
    • 1.6 Small Quotes for Tattoos
    • 1.7 Marilyn Monroe Tattoo Quotes
    • 1.8 Music Quotes for Tattoos
    • 1.9 Funny Quotes for Tattoos
    • 1.10 Family Tattoo Quotes
  • 2 More Tattoos with Quotes

Different Categories of Tattoo Quotes

Love Tattoo Quotes for Men & Women

Interesting Quotes for Tattoos

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea
Honore de Balzac

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Theresa

Latin Quotes for Tattoos

Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’.
Ronald Reagan
 

Inspirational Tattoo Quotes

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

quote tattoo that says "all life is an experiment"
“All Life is an Experiment” quote tattoo

Norman Vincent Peale

Great hopes make great men.
Thomas Fuller

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

Life Quotes for Tattoos

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry

Bible Tattoo Quotes

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
Jerry Falwell

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
Hosea Ballou

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
Ellen G. White

There’s no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Dwight L. Moody

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
William Brewster

Small Quotes for Tattoos

quote tattoo photo

 

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge

I rant, therefore I am.
Dennis Miller

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin

Marilyn Monroe Tattoo Quotes

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

It’s all make believe, isn’t it?

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

Music Quotes for Tattoos

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

I don’t care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy


Funny Quotes for Tattoos

Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White

Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name.
Milton Berle

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck

I like marriage. The idea.
Toni Morrison

If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.
Laurence J. Peter

Family Tattoo Quotes

A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

Family is not an important thing, it’s everything.
Michael J. Fox

I don’t think anyone has a normal family.
Edward Furlong

Coloring of Quotes for Tattoos should be in a dark ink such dark green, blue, black, and red for visibility.  Fonts should definitely be a consideration.  Have fun with this; there are fonts to choose from you are sure to find one that matches the genre of quotation that you’ve chosen.  If you select other patterns or designs as backgrounds for your quotations for tattoos, select a color that goes well with skin coloring. Discuss with your tattoo artist.

Placement of quotation for tattoos probably wear best on the hip, chest, upper arm, shoulder, back, and around the ankles.

More Tattoos with Quotes

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Love without cause tattoo

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"That which does not kill me makes me stronger" quote tattoo

 

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Photo by Pedro Fanega

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