Tattoo Quotes

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

  Jack London

  Past, Men, Interesting

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

  Cher

  Skins, Likes, Bare Skin

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

  Johnny Depp

  Stories, Body, Journal

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• A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Graffiti, Body, Temples

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• Tattoos tell stories of crime and passion, punishment and regret. They express an outlaw, antiauthoritarian point of view and communicate a romantic solidarity among society's outcasts.

  Douglas Kent Hall

  Regret, Passion, Views

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• My tattoos are reminders to hang in there when things get rough.

  Demi Lovato

  Reminders, Rough, Hang In There

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• 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

  Beautiful, Talking, Important

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• Tattoos aren't meant for everybody and they're too goddamn good for some people.

  Lyle Tuttle

  People

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

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

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• A tattoo is an affirmation: that this body is yours to have and to enjoy while you're here. Nobody else can control what you do with it.

  Don Ed Hardy

  Body, Affirmation, Enjoy

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

  Chester Bennington

  Commitment, Lifelong, Permanent

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

  Jenna Jameson

  Hurt, Should, Passages

  "Jenna Jameson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. August 7, 2008.

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• Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Body, Return, Painting

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.67, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

  James Cook

  Curious, Speculation, Subjects

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• Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time.

  Chester Bennington

  Pain, Pleasure, Pain And Pleasure

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• 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

  Brother, Flower, Skeletons

  "This much I know: Marilyn Manson". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2012.

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

  Johnny Depp

  Self Harm, Artist, Knives

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• I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future.

  Richard Jeni

  Regret, Thinking, Decision

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• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  Ed Westwick

  Looking Good, Corpses

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

  Bernard Malamud

  Wall, Men, Doors

  1973 Rembrandt's Hat,'The Man in the Drawer'.

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• Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves.

  Charles Darwin

  Country, Regions, South

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7537, Delphi Classics

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• It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

  Peter McWilliams

  Marriage, I Hate You, Work Out

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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