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I want to get a quote tattoo on my rib cage.
I have a rare disease that I got diagnosed with in childhood and I want to get a quote representing how I’ve overcome it.
I was thinking the four words:
Strength
Beauty
Courage
Love
Each one has its own meaning to me but essential without this diagnosis I would not be who I am right now.
Either that or one of these:
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for my heart to conquer it.
Love your life, perfect your life, and beautify all things in your life.
We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?”, unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.
Or
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
Please let me know what you think!
Welcome to the forum!
You’ll find that many people in this forum have little time for tribal, or text tattoos.
I don’t care for them, but if that’s what you really want, go for it. Just be absolutly sure to get a really good artist.
Text tattoos can really turn out horrible. The lettering has to be absolutly consistant in thickness of the lines, spacing, height, and width. Just Google misspelled tattoos. Recently a member wrote in to find out if the cursive “m” was correct as it had only two humps. (that was a cursive “n”) That goof really messed up the family names since the artist did the same thing on her husband.
Keep us posted.
I’m going to play devil’s advocate. I do like some text tattoo, and I have a rather large one in Tengwar (one of Tolkein’s elvish languages). The majority of people who’ve seen it have pleasant things to say about it. I am still in love with it after a year.
Text tattoos aren’t the dead ends people play them out to be. While you’ll have a challenge if you wish to tattoo a portrait of Shirley Temple holding a monkey over it, they can be added to, and around. I’m in the midst of planning a rose to go at the bottom of the piece inspired both by lyrics from “The Road Goes Ever On,” and Chapter IV in Les Mis, “A Rose in Misery.” So you ca do different things with a quote tattoo. You’re not as stuck as people would like you to think.
However, those words are a little played out. I’ve seen a lot of tattoos like that. The spoken/written word is a thing of power. Do not come lightly to the blank page, or in this case, the blank body.
Don’t be afraid of allusion and symbolism in either words or in a drawing tattooed on. When I reflect on my personal battle with ovarian cancer, a few quotes that ran through my own head:
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” – Fits well with something like “Starry, Starry Night”
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” – Any of the traditional symbols of life and death are lovely with this.
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