#tattoo

The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#nation #regret #tattooed #voluntary #will

I used to make fun of young people when I was 17 - the angst, the insecurities, all those tattoos. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#fun #i #insecurities #make #people

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one. ↗

— Ashley Scott

#conservative #funny #husband #must #tattoos

The world is simple, I think, in its essence. Life, death, love, hate. Desire, fulfillment. Magic. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#death

I'm going to get 'I'M NOT FUCKING DEAD' tattooed on my chest." "That will become inaccurate at some point, " Omar pointed out. ↗

— Domashita Romero

#humor #m-m-romance #tattoos #death

She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; "What does that mean?" he asked her. "Absolutely nothing," she said, "it's just a flower. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #life-and-living #sweet-irony #sweetness #tattoo

I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia for the universal internally generated coloring of corrollas, furs, shells, carapaces and wings. For man it has been necessary to create both works and tools outside of himself. But it may be that he retains an obscure nostalgia to create them on his own body, to make them a part of it rather than projecting them outwards onto an independent surface, where he is free to retouch them as he sees fit, which is precisely what painting and art are. ↗

— Roger Caillois

#art

Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful....... ↗

— Nicola Barker

#beauty

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh. ↗

— Dan Brown

#control #dan-brown #flesh #tattoo #the-lost-symbol

I got his initials tattooed on the back of my neck, you know, since we both now have the same initials. ↗

— Ashley Scott

#both #got #his #i #initials