Tattoo Quotes

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

I am not afraid; I was born to do this.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

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.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps

Iniesta doesn't dye his hair, he doesn't wear earrings and he hasn't got any tattoos. Maybe that makes him unattractive to the media but he is the best.

My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

Emancipate yourself from mental slavery.

Don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.

The ‘black metallers’ will probably continue to ‘get loaded,’ ‘get high,’ and in all other manners too behave like the stereotypical Negro; they will probably continue to get foreign tribal tattoos, dress, walk, talk, look and act like homosexuals, and so forth.

Always watch your back - when I was fourteen I got a tattoo of an eye on the back of my neck, so I could say I was always watchin' my back.

All's fair in love and war.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I'd never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.

As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.

For every single dark night there is a brighter day.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.

Tattoos are my way of expressing myself without the need for words.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is.

Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe.

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.

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.

I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

People like to come up to me and tell me that I’ve got nice ink. Except these tattoos aren’t just decorations. They are declarations. Every tattoo I have tells its own story about who I am. Drug-free. Honor. And a war against the system.

People are proud of their tattoos. It's like a modern coat of arms.

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.

I really think if you have a tattoo you have to wonder about what kind of future you have ahead of you. As an employer, I wouldn't employ someone with tattoos as I would wonder what customers would think about them. For me, tattoos are just a way for people to find attention who haven't found another way in their life to achieve it by conventional means.

Don't let these tattoos fool you. I'm straight edge. I'm a man of great discipline; I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't do drugs... my addiction is wrestling - my obsession is competition. Discipline. My name is C...M...Punk.

When one door closes, another one opens.

It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness.