Written tattoos: excerpts and phrases to inspire your tattoo

It is known that tattooing is the art of eternalizing meanings on the skin and, therefore, engraving words on the body is a way of making the written translation of certain feelings, moments and personal thoughts palpable and eternal.

According to tattoo artist Daniel Galdino, phrases and words are great tattoo options, as they are direct when expressing what we want to convey.

However, in some cases, few words are not enough to express everything you want and you may feel the need to tattoo a larger section.

Check out some more tips from tattoo artist Daniel Galdino so you don’t make mistakes in your written tattoo and see suggestions for bigger phrases and excerpts to tattoo or inspire yours.

Important tips and details

Tattoo artist Daniel says that any tattoo (drawing or writing) is something very personal. “Only the owner of the tattoo knows its full meaning.” According to him, musical and biblical excerpts are among the most tattooed styles.

When choosing your phrase or excerpt, you need to pay attention to the meaning it has for you (regardless of whether it is understandable or not for others) and also think about the best font to complete the look of your tattoo.

An important tip given by the tattoo artist Daniel is to choose fonts that have a considerable space between the letters, because over time the skin ages and the tattoo ages together, and may gain a blurred appearance in the future.

ideas and inspirations

Check out 50 suggestions for longer phrases and excerpts to tattoo or get inspired when choosing what you will have written on your tattoo:

romantic

• “Love is big and it fits in this window over the sea. The sea is big and fits in the bed and mattress to love. Love is big and fits in the brief space of kissing.” – Carlos Drummond
• “Love Is A Force You Can’t Control.” (Love is a force you can’t control)
• “Somewhere I’ll find someone who’s going nowhere and will go there together.” (Somewhere I’ll find someone going nowhere and we’ll go there together.)
• Love suffers everything, believes everything, hopes everything, supports everything, love never ends.
• “What the heart once owned, it shall never lose.” (What the heart once possessed will never be lost.)
• “Our paths may change as life goes on but the bond between us is always strong.” (Our paths may change as life goes on, but our bond will always be strong.)

Inspiring phrases

• “Wonders never failed the world; what is always lacking is the ability to feel and admire them.” – Mario Quintana
• “The secret is not to run after the butterflies… It is to take care of the garden so that they come to you.” – Mario Quintana
• “And suddenly life turns you inside out and you discover that the inside out is your right side.” – Caio Fernando de Abreu
• “Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die tomorrow.”
• “Let’s live our dreams, we have so little time…”
• “It is the time of crossing: and, if we do not dare to do it, we will have been, forever, on the sidelines of ourselves” – Fernando Pessoa
• “Tomorrow is too far away for those who don’t have eternity.”
• “Life has the color that you paint.”
• “May my courage be greater than my fear and my strength be greater than my faith.” – Marisa Pereira

Excerpts of works

• “When I look into your eyes I see something that money can’t buy.” (When I look into your eyes I see something money can’t buy) – Justin Timberlake
• “And in the end, the love you take is the love you make” – The Beatles
• “The ones we love never truly leave us.” (Those we love never really leave us.) – Harry Potter
• “Some infinities are bigger than others” – The fault of the stars
• “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.” (The only way out of the maze of suffering is to forgive.) – Who are you Alaska?
• “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” (What’s the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?) – Katherine’s Theorem
• “And may my madness be forgiven, because half of me is love and the other half is too.” – Oswaldo Montenegro
• “How could you know what happiness is if you had never experienced the falls?” – PS. I love you
• “I make myself a house of good feelings where bad faith does not reside and evil cannot be created” – Forfun
• “Sans toi, les émotions d’aujourd’hui ne seraient que la peau d’morte des émotions autrefois.” (Without you, today’s emotions would be just remnants of past emotions.) – The Fabulous Fate of Amélie Poulain
• “Les temps sont durs pour les rêveurs.” (These are hard times for dreamers.) – The fabulous fate of Amélie Poulain

religious

• “Always rule me, rule me, enlighten me, Amen.”
• “In the day that I fear, I will trust in You.” – Psalm 56.3
• “You are my refuge and my strength, my God, in whom I trust.” – Psalms 91:2
• “Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.” – 1 John 4:4
• “Strength and honor are her dress, and she will rejoice in the day ahead.” – Proverbs 31:25
• “Even if I walked through the valley of the shadow of death, I would fear no evil, for you are with me.” – Psalms 23:4

In English

• “Find out what makes you happy, and fight for it.” (Find out what makes you happy and fight for it.)
• “A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.” (A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.)
• “All good things are wild and free.” (All good things are free and wild.)
• “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” (The greatest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams) – Oprah Winfrey
• “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” (Everything we see or look like is just a dream within a dream.) – Edgar Allen Poe
• “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” (Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.)
• “Let your past make you better not bitter.” (Let your past make you better not bitter.)
• “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” (Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.)
• “Maybe she’s just different from the others.” (Maybe she’s just different from the others.)
• “Have you done enough today to earn the right to live tomorrow?” (Have you done enough today to earn the right to live tomorrow?)
• “Every saint has a past every sinner has a future?” (Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future) – Oscar Wilde
• “Keep looking up there may be a rainbow waiting for you.” (Keep looking up, there might be a rainbow waiting for you.)
• “To live a creative life we ​​must lose our fear of being wrong.” (To live a creative life we ​​must lose our fear of being wrong.) – Joseph Chilton Pearce
• “My life is my art. My art is my life.” (My life is my art. My art is my life.)

in Latin

• “Hoc non pereo habebo fortior me” (What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.)
• “Alis volat propiis” (Fly with thine own wings.)
• “Drago dormiens nunquam titillandus.” (You shouldn’t tickle a sleeping dragon.)
• “Te faber est suae fortunae.” (You are the architect of your own destiny.)

Beautiful tattoos written for inspiration

In addition to the phrase ideas, check out amazing images of written and long tattoos for inspiration.