Tattoo Ideas: Quotes on Love
By becauseilive
After writing over two dozen hubs on tattoo ideas that showcased pictures as the majority of the content, I started noticing that a large portion of the comments were from people asking for ideas on what to say, not so much on how to say it. Like Lindsay, for example, who commented on the hub Tattoo Ideas: Words & Phrases and said: "I want some sort of latin script with a phrase having to do with karma." Or Jesso, who said: "I have a colourful fish on my left lower back, but next I want a script.. .. just what I don't know... something positive to remind me every day is mine, I am in control of my destiny."
The tricky thing about quote tattoos is that nine times out of ten they can't be too long. Unless you have a huge expanse of skin that you plan on dedicating to the tat, like a forearm or your entire back, you're going to need to pick a quote that's short enough to fit in a small area. A few years ago my girlfriend wanted to get something I had written tattooed on her in my handwriting. The quote she wanted was twenty-one words long, and she wanted it somewhere on her inner forearms. As she is already fairly heavily tattooed, there was no criteria such as having to get it on a place that could be easily hidden if need be. She's lucky. She ended up getting it running lengthwise down her arm next to the word GIRL that was already there. Most people don't have the same flexibility as her. Maybe your job is too professional for tattoos and piercings, or you don't want your mother to see it. If that's the case, then a quote tattoo can be challenging to find space for. And if you think you're going to fit an entire poem (unless it's a haiku) on your wrist by shrinking down the letters to a size 5 font, you're mistaken. Good tattoo artists will only let you make the lettering so small, because they know that tattoos blend, fade and bleed over time. The smaller the font, the better the chance that you'll be left with a meaningless blob ten years down the road. So although there are millions of wonderful quotes about the beauty of love, I've tried to only assemble the ones that are on the shorter side, while still being meaningful.
I went back through all 2,000+ comments on my previous hubs and tried to identify the most common themes people requested when asking for help with quote ideas. In addition to being a voracious reader, I've been compiling quotes in notebooks and journals since I was thirteen. This hub is second in a series of hubs broken down by category that started with Tattoo Ideas: Quotes on Strength, Adversity, Courage. Please, if you have any ideas or would like to share a favorite quote of yours, feel free to comment! The examples I've chosen for this particular hub may not resonate with everyone. You might read it and get nothing out of it. But my hope is that something will resonate with someone, somewhere, and the words written here will inspire you to take a step you may not have taken otherwise.
Quotes--Love and Hope
my ear, “but you take me farther.”
-Emma Donoghue: Hood
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall
forever.
-Author Unknown
True love stories never have endings.
-Richard Bach
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
-Robert Browning
There is always some madness in love. But there is also
always some reason in madness.
-Nietzsche
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
-Mother Teresa
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two
chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are
transformed.
-Carl Jung
Lovers don't actually meet. They collide.
There is nowhere I stop and you begin.
Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth
living were spent with you.
-Henry Rollins
May you find someone who will forget your past and nail you
back together.
-Richard Bach: The Bridge Across Forever
A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys and
keys to fit our locks.
-Richard Bach: The Bridge Across Forever
Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.
-Richard Bach: The Bridge Across Forever
Our love lives because I live.
-Anais Nin
When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.
-Blaise Pascal
Love is stronger than death.
-"The Crow: City of Angels"
The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be
loved in return.
-"Moulin Rouge"
I'd rather spend a lifetime with you then to live all the
ages of this world alone.
-"Lord of the Rings"
Everything I've done, I've done for you. I move the stars
for no one.
-"Labyrinth"
My love runs deeper than the wounds.
-Henry Rollins
Forget this life
Come with me
Don't look back you're safe now
Unlock your heart
Drop your guard
No one's left to stop you
-Evanescence
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Comments
Very nice set of tattoos.
Very nice set of tattoos.
one of my all time favs. the greatest thing you can ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return. im glad didnt miss that one and also glad to see a real live tat of it.
i love the tattoo's on here....very cute
is that one person with hair coming out of there pants a chick>? cause oh god! lol
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shut up!
Pencil To Paper, Ink To Skin
Sketch'd In Ink
Pretty In Ink
could you please pic another pic of the heart one saying The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
i want a tat like that
ta xx
check out ambigram (wow tattoo) guys!!!!!! i have a tattoo that on my hip reads strength, an upside down to me it reads patience. others can see the strength i have to overcome, an i remember in my own little way to have patience with lifes little bumps..... you can customise anything, and they have phrases also.... enjoy!
"other things may change us, but we start and end with family." anthony brandt
"two hearts, one soul".....
"rise like a phoenix from the ashes"...
"love the happiness of life"
"she flies with her own wings"
when words fail, music speaks"
"blessed are the hearts that can bend, for they shall never be broken"
"dream as you will live forever"
"aim for the moon, if you miss, you may hit a star"
-Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
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-Failure is success if we learn from it.
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-The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
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-Life is simple, its just not easy.
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-Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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-Live so that you may live.
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-If I am not myself then who will be me?
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-Live, love, laugh.
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-All I am & all I hope to be.
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Finally found phares dat i like:]
Finally found phares dat i like:]
omq i want a love quote thats hot wanna qet it ass a tatoo on my rib help .
I am thinking of putting this:
Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'etre aime. (which means: there is only one happiness in life; to love and be loved)
thoughts?
I am thinking of putting this:
Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'etre aime. (which means: there is only one happiness in life; to love and be loved)
thoughts?
im trying to find a tattoo idea, i want a little quote, but one that relates to me and my boyrfriend, but iv been looking and cant find any like love quotes which like are good or relate to us, or are the kind of thing i want...someone thats good a good imagination help me? haha
my boyfriend designed his beautful chest peice and got it tattoed to suprise me it a heart with a key hole wings around it and two roses it has set me free above it, te other bit of the suprise is he wants me to get the key so i designed a chest peicesimilar but with my personal affects i was wondering if anyone had an idea of wat quote i can get back to se me free?
where love lives is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts
"will you love me for the rest of my life?"
"no ill love you for the rest of mine"
love the first tattoo!! (love never fails) soo cute!
...oh yeah and before you take a pic of your tat and put it all over the internet...shave your pubes!!! OMG
I'm wanting to get my second tattoo, I want to get a quote on my right shoulder blade. I have a few quotes in mind but not positive which one I should get. Any Ideas?
The quotes I have in mind are:
- The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.
-No day but Today
Renee i have a tattoo on my wrist from a peom by EE cummings and it just says "I Carry Your Heart" ...thats pretty sweet x
love the quotes!!! My personal favorite is "Rise like a pheonix from the ashes" quote :) but their all very beautiful
I love till death do us part but i would like it to say till death do us part although i will still love you but i would like some feed back please.
"Alis Volat Propiis" it is latin for "with her own wings she flies" and is also the Oregon state motto. I am getting it tomorrow with a blue-bird perched on the "V"
if u are gonna give people advice on tats, namely quotes in latin, then u should at least get the spelling right... Alis Volat Propriis, not Allis Volat Propiis... tut, shame on u...
"Love as Thy Wilt"
heyyy till death ...shave
oh.my.god. the girl with pubes out...nasty
"love is life...without love you don't live"
obviously "till death" is a dude and "do us part" is associated with him! dont hate... just appreciate
"hate is easy; love takes courage."
i have hate is easy, love takes courage on my back. it is a great quote
that chick up there needs to shave her pubes!!
- i'le love you to the day i die
- je t'aime (i love you in french)
- i will love you forever and a day
- in my heart you will stay
- te amo
always in my heart, even after death do us part
"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." good quote, strong meaninggg
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your true-love's coming
That can sing both high and low;
Trip no further pretty sweeting,
Journey's end in lovers' meeting
I want to get this tatted on my left pec with two hands conjoining in the background. Any thoughts? Email me if you would like to see a pic of what it would roughly look like - d.abinsay@gmail.com
i want to get my wrists tattooed with a love quote, but im having trouble deciding.. theres this one quote that i keep coming back to and i really like it, but im unsure.. so i need some feedback :D its "love wins" one word per wrist, of course ;] soo whatcha think? any other ideas are welcome as well! HELP ;DDD
" The luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds true love . "
" Love Never Dies "
For couples on chest or anywhere but chest looks qood they should put 'Forever" When they are together .
And if you ever should break apart Finish it with " Nothing Lasts Forever" Its pretty cool and significant , romantic too .
Obviously he's a guy..its with the chick.stop hating its great love it!
Obviously he's a guy..its with the chick.stop hating its great love it!
"A man that stands for nothing, will settle for anything"
"Loved by few, hated by many, Respected by all"
This is what I'm thinking about getting any feedback on what picture to put with it?
live for today
love and be loved,love never dies
i love you all
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return" - Nat King Cole, not Moulin Rouge
Girl with hair coming out is so nasty
Broken Smile
My Husband is in prison. Our first anniversary is coming up and I want to surprise him with something. We already have our names on each other and we are going to get tattoo's of rings on our ring fingers when he gets out. But I want to get a love quote. Maybe something about him being gone for so long and us loving each other. I heard a quote awhile back I can't remember but something Like "True Love waits" or something like that.. Any Idea's or if you know any please let me know thank you!!!
blood is good pud pud
Hiya,
does anyone know any good but short poems on family? i want to get a poem on my side for my family but i cant find anything decent. Im trying to think of my own but im not the best at poems ha.
thanks for your help :)
Live free or die hard
The 'Till death' tattoo pic is actually a guy? And the one below looks like a pregnant chick?
hey trying to find a saying that has meaning for life strength motherhood and changes... im getting a tattoo of pics that mean all of these and would love a quote for it...?/?
i just got love and be loved on my shoulder,in the very font i am currently tying,i love the film moulin rouge and didnt even realise its from moulin rouge,perhaps i could get the greatest thing bit tattooed in
mary 3 years ago
i love the till death do us part tattoo! that is so creative!