Welcome to our Tattoos Quotes page, where the art of ink meets the power of words. Tattoos have long been a means of self-expression, and what better way to enhance their significance than by adorning your body with meaningful quotes? Whether you’re a seasoned tattoo enthusiast or someone considering their first ink, this collection of tattoo quotes will inspire and guide you on your journey.
Tattoos have the incredible ability to encapsulate your thoughts, beliefs, and memories in a single, permanent design. The words etched into your skin can carry profound meaning, serving as a reminder of the things that matter most to you. In this diverse selection of quotes, you’ll find words of wisdom, motivation, love, and inspiration that can be incorporated into your tattoo designs. So, whether you’re seeking that perfect quote to complement your existing ink or embarking on a new chapter of self-expression, you’ll discover a treasure trove of tattoo quotes below. Feel free to copy, combine, and experiment with different fonts to create the perfect tattoo that resonates with your soul.
I’m not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I’ve sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there’s smoke there’s fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke. Al Jourgensen
I love tattoos. Wiz Khalifa
I wish I had a lot of tattoos. Kristen Wiig
I got my first tattoo when I was 19. The one on my shoulder is an eagle. I’d go to the beach, and I’d take off my shirt, and I’d almost feel self-conscious because nobody out there had tattoos except my buddies, the guys who rode motorcycles. American-made bikes, mainly. Lorenzo Lamas
There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I’ve got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, ‘Maybe just a tiny one.’ Lena Headey
A lot of my friends have tattoos; I realized that it’s not only just a part of pop culture, but a bit of a map on someone’s body, which says something about people. A part of their life, like an armor or a crest. Christian Louboutin
I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can’t find anyone to let me give them to. Jemima Kirke
I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was. Nas
People who don’t like me talk about it as though I’m trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it’s 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren’t limited to sailors. It’s a form of art I find beautiful. I love it. Megan Fox
I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 – the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos. Craig Kilborn
‘Tattoos’ reminds me of where I’m from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time. Jason Aldean
I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years. Urs Fischer
I’m just a really normal, sensitive kind of go-about-my business everyday kinda guy. People see the tattoos, and they either read things or they see things and they don’t really know that I’m just this guy that gets up and makes coffee in the morning and hangs out with his friends and walks his dog and reads his Bible and goes about his day. Joel Madden
Matching tattoos don’t ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship. Jenna Wortham
I have over 35 tattoos. Elle King
I don’t have any tattoos – I live vicariously through my sister, Langley, who has many. If I can’t stick to one ensemble, I don’t think I could stick to one tattoo. Dree Hemingway
It’s quite amazing how tattoos in general have been more and more accepted. Lorenzo Lamas
I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time. Karl Lagerfeld
All my tattoos are tattoos that I wanted to get, but I couldn’t afford. Allen Iverson
I don’t gotta act hard… People be getting face tattoos to act hard. YBN Nahmir
It’s superficial that people think I’m cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they’re always surprised by how nerdy I am. Zoe Kravitz
I never counted how many tattoos I have, but I started getting them at a really young age, so most of my big ones are cover-ups. Bria Vinaite
I have no tattoos. There’s nothing I’ve even been that into to get a tattoo of it. Eli Roth
Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn’t, they’d spit on me in the street. Hugh Jackman
I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I’ve thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I’m just leaving them. Andre Benjamin
Tattoos, for me, are like a timeline of my life. I could look at a certain tattoo, and it reminds of me of a certain time in my life and why I got that tattoo. Tyga
I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That’s part of my image, so it’s cool. Zayn Malik
I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I’ll probably do my kids initials. Niki Taylor
I don’t have tattoos, I have scars! Marina Abramovic
The funny thing is that my husband couldn’t be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He’s got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he’s around you, he’s such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans. Malin Akerman
I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I’ve been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage. Kevin Durant
I like tattoos. I’m gonna be covered. I’m not going to touch my face or under the chin on the neck: it’s my least favorite place. Mac Miller
I never thought about getting any tattoos removed. Henry Rollins
It’s interesting, the things you learn when you’re 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you’re not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you. Katee Sackhoff
I’ve managed to avoid tattoos so far. Mick Jagger
I’ve never really understood tattoos. I mean, it’s your body – why would you wanna scar it? I don’t mind other people’s tattoos, but I just never got it. Juergen Teller
I’m waiting to get old – I think old guys with tattoos look good. Ryan Gosling
I have lots of meaningful tattoos, also some others are for just passion. Ederson
John Hartson, he speaks fluent Welsh and has the tattoos all over him to prove his Welshness. But in my own world, no one is more Welsh than myself. Craig Bellamy
I think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It’s like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There’s nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever. Jamie Campbell Bower
Well, I love tattoos and have been drawing them on my binders in school since I was little. Kimberly Caldwell
My mum keeps telling me to stop getting tattoos but I’ll get a few more sneaky ones in. Ivan Toney
I try to really capitalize off of what other rappers really can’t do. There are opportunities that rappers I love simply can’t get, because… you know… I don’t have the tattoos; I have a different image. Drake
I want my tattoos to be a story of my life. Anne-Marie
I go through stages. Randomly, I’ll be attracted to a crazy rocker with tattoos. And I find that I’m extremely attracted to ambition and wit. Ashley Greene
It’s almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they’re to be respected, and they’re powerful. Helen Fisher
Bikers, in general, have just been so attractive to people. Photographers would follow them because there’s this weird warrior gravitas that comes with it. The bikes are loud, they have tattoos, they have artwork that they all wear on their jackets. Ryan Hurst
I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I’m so fair. Dolly Parton
There was this really rock n’ roll guy who was very obviously dragged to my concert by his girlfriend. He had tattoos all over, and he was wearing a Metallica T-shirt. He came up to me said it was one of his favorite concerts because I had reached for his heart and dragged it out and put it in front of his face. Lou Doillon
I’d love to be on ‘Glee.’ I’d love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos. Leona Lewis
As soon as I saw tattoos as a way to tell your story, I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I totally get it.’ So I got my first tattoo a couple of years ago, and it’s the word ‘hope’ on my left arm. It has a couple of dots at the end for each of my kids. Kristian Bush
Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed – but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it. Tony Parsons
I did not always know I was gonna get tattoos. Lil Peep
I think swag is very important to rappers. It’s the overall appearance and style of an artist – these blue shorts and this blue hat and this $80,000 chain, this jewelry and all these tattoos, that’s swag. Soulja Boy
I’m a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It’s pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too. Timothy F. Cahill
I basically – I don’t like tattoos, unless you’re a firefighter who has a tattoo that has to do with that or a military guy. That’s – those are people who should have tattoos. Denis Leary
Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos. Chuck Zito
I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been. Tom Hardy
‘Outsiders,’ I guess, is sort of dark, but I don’t really think of it as dark. The world up there on that mountain, it had the potential to have a lot of fun as well as a lot of drama, these guys raiding the town in their ATVs with their tattoos. It seemed like something different. David Morse
I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality. Lena Dunham
Sometimes people say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so if you look at my tattoos and you know what you’re reading, you can draw a lot from them. Montel Vontavious Porter
People are proud of their tattoos. It’s like a modern coat of arms. Christian Louboutin
Get whatever tattoos you want, just make sure they mean something at least. Trippie Redd
I have over seventy tattoos. Jeffree Star
The pro skaters I know are responsible members of society. Many of them are fathers, homeowners, world travelers and successful entrepreneurs. Their hairdos and tattoos are simply part of our culture, even when they raise eyebrows during PTA meetings. Tony Hawk
I always get forwarded these weird pictures of people getting Kenny Powers tattoos. That’s probably the craziest thing I’ve ever seen: Somebody will ink my face on their body for eternity. Danny McBride
I’m addicted to tattoos. I can’t stop; I love them. Adrianne Palicki
People look at my tattoos, and the majority of them are religious images, so people think, ‘Oh, he must be very religious’. I respect all religions, but I’m not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. David Beckham
Everyone loves good looks, but personality is what sells for me. I want someone to have fun and go on adventures with. I do like guys with tattoos, though. Hayley Hasselhoff
I’m getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn’t look like I’m ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy. Al Jourgensen
I have no tattoos at all – it was a huge undertaking for me in the ’80s to let my parents know I was piercing my ear when I did ‘L.A. Law.’ Jimmy Smits
I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out. Wentworth Miller
My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies. Ryan Reynolds
Two friends and I decided to get tattoos of different animals. My one friend got a bulldog. My other friend got a bull, I think, and then I got a shark. Two years later, there was a cartoon called ‘Street Sharks,’ and by happenstance, it looked eerily reminiscent of my tattoo. Actually, it was identical. Edge
I don’t like people who smoke and have tattoos. Farrah Abraham
I know for a fact that many people repent and want to do away with their tattoos. It is all marketing and hype and nothing else. Also, tattoos stand out on fair and not wheatish complexion. God has given you a body. Why spoil it? Rishi Kapoor
I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I’m very spontaneous about what I get. Marc Jacobs
Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them. Ed Sheeran
As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common – first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies. Charles Murray
Tattoos are addicting, and I used to have this tribal tattoo, but I was never really happy with it. Randy Orton
Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond. Jenna Wortham
I just like tattoos. Amy Winehouse
I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I’m attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He’s usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it’s strange. Megan Fox
If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial. Ethan Hawke
I have five tattoos. One says conquer, another Svatantra, a third mind over matter. I have a heart on my collar bone, and another tattoo saying Always Mommy’s Girl. I got these tattoos in different places at different times in my life and they all mean something to me. Ananya Birla
I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become. Urs Fischer
The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I’ve designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I’ve done. I don’t know that I could do that for anyone else. Jonathan Hickman
All my tattoos except my first were not planned. I would just go into the shop late at night with friends and ask for something on the spot. My first is my parents’ wedding date. I thought it would soften the blow of getting a tattoo. Hailey Baldwin
There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked. Lena Dunham
There’s a lot of us idiot actors that get tattoos and they cover them with makeup when you do a film. Seann William Scott
Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you. Carlos Santana
Tattoos are like stories – they’re symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful. Pamela Anderson
I love math. I have little secret number tattoos everywhere. I design them. Pauley Perrette
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage. Drew Barrymore
I don’t have tattoos other than lines. Andrew W.K.
When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12. Jordin Sparks
I’ve always wanted to be sure my parents approve of what I do. Even with my tattoos, my mom went with me. Ashley Tisdale
I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos. Kellan Lutz
I have 18 tattoos. My tattoos have kind of become their own person. Everybody does stories on them. It is risky to be successful in the fashion industry and to tat your body up, but I figured, the way that I made my career and the way that I am successful is because I have always been myself. Jessica White
Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs – Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It’s kind of a secret. People say to us, ‘Why did you get that?’ And we say, ‘No reason.’ Marilyn Manson
