Mandatory Ink!

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  • LuckyLeprechaun
    LuckyLeprechaun Posts: 6,296 Member
    Or a representation of Samwise Gamgee. Most loyal friend ever.
  • Trail_Addict
    Trail_Addict Posts: 1,340 Member
    "You're not putting that in THERE!"
    - my ex wife
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    I have "Live your truth" on my forearm. Got it after reading Billie Jean King's autobiography. Love dat woman.
  • jenbit
    jenbit Posts: 4,252 Member
    "Let the dragon ride again on the winds of time" -Robert Jordan Wheel of time - under the writing I would et the symbols of the 3 main male characters a red and gold chinese dragon, a scarlett gloved fist and a golden wolfs head
  • elliottjane
    elliottjane Posts: 37
    bump
  • Dragonnade
    Dragonnade Posts: 218 Member
    "Remember it happy; the sun in your eyes." - final line from Accident by Nicholas Mosley.

    Just not 100% sure where as I want another quote, non-literary, on my right ribs. Perhaps left arm - I have history there.
  • rbear713
    rbear713 Posts: 220 Member
    De gustibus non est disputandum

    That phrase has always stuck in my mind for some reason.

    pretty sure it means

    Gusto (or attitude or verve or passion) is not a dispute (argument)... or like passion is not arguing..

    something like that right?

    I dig it!
  • jacksamjack
    jacksamjack Posts: 146 Member
    No regrets.
  • leopard_barbie
    leopard_barbie Posts: 279 Member
    "I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead"
    (Bukowski)

    or

    "All the while shall my heart be
    With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea"
    (e.e.cummings)

    I met a guy in a club who had "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man" tattooed round his forearm. It was one of my favorite ever tattoos.
  • Temporalia
    Temporalia Posts: 1,151 Member
    "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream" - Edgar Allan Poe
  • acstansell
    acstansell Posts: 567 Member
    Don't dream it... be it. - This has been a personal mantra of mine since I first saw Rocky Horror
    Immerse your soul in love. - My favorite Radiohead lyric (would go with my Radiohead tat)
    Shine on you crazy diamond - Pink Floyd
    All that is now, and all that is gone, and all that's to come, and everything under the sun - Eclipse from Pink Floyd
    She's not a girl who misses much - Beatles
    blue-eyed devil - from a Soul Coughing song.

    For picture form - I'd get two fishes in a fishbowl. For the song lyric - "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year."
  • jedibunny
    jedibunny Posts: 321
    "And though she be but little, she is fierce." - Shakespeare

    It's on my profile and I do plan on getting it tattooed..... soon.

    That is awesome.

    For me, I'd probably put a small "42" on the inside of my wrist. I'd also get this, from the "Journey's End" poem in Return of the King:

    "Above all shadows rides the Sun
    and Stars for ever dwell;
    I will not say the Day is done,
    nor bid the Stars farewell."

    And for those using music, my real name is Layla - so I'm planning on getting the piano coda from the song (in sheet music form) across my upper back with an image of a small bird taking flight at the end of it (for the "chirping" sound).

    Another idea I saw was from Harry Potter - it was an image of a scroll which, under blacklight, revealed the words "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." -- DISCLAIMER: blacklight tattoos are really not safe... it was just a neat picture :P

    Last, but not least, as a contender:

    "There is no Death. There is only the Force."

    ...who'm I kidding? That's not the last option I can think of.
  • ReclaimingSarah
    ReclaimingSarah Posts: 250 Member

    "Winter is Coming" George RR Martin's Game of Thrones series (and yes I was a fan LOOOONG before the HBO show!)

    YES! My husband & I are seriously considering getting House Martell's "Unbowed, unbent, unbroken." (Also fans LOOOONG before the show.)
  • Pocket_Pixi
    Pocket_Pixi Posts: 1,167 Member
    I already have it but:
    "somedays just look better upside down."

    It is to remind me to relax and to not take life so seriosusly.
  • jedibunny
    jedibunny Posts: 321

    Or "faith, trust and pixie dust" - from Peter Pan, my niece passed away in 2009 and that was her favourite movie so it's kind of fitting

    I also love this!
  • Hootowlhollow
    Hootowlhollow Posts: 30
    Most likely it would be "today I will make a difference" my sisters favorite quote.
    Or "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" My favorite Verse

    But I THink it would be really cool to have this "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." My favorite books of all time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • HowieTwoPointZero
    HowieTwoPointZero Posts: 494 Member
    גם זה יעבור

    This too shall pass.‎
  • turningstar
    turningstar Posts: 393 Member
    Forgive me if I misquote this, I can't remember exactly how it goes.

    Courage is not the absence of fear. It is doing something in spite of it.

    And no, I don't know where it comes from.

    I also have a saying on a magnet that I really like. It reads-"True courage lies within even the gentlest of hearts".
  • acstansell
    acstansell Posts: 567 Member
    Not into tattoos, but if I had to it would be "Death be Not Proud" by John Donne

    DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
    Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
    For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
    Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
    Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
    And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
    Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
    Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
    And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
    And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
    And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
    One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
    And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

    I LOVE THIS POEM!
  • dane11235813
    dane11235813 Posts: 682 Member
    "If it be now, ’t is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."

    Hamlet

    or

    "the rest is silence"

    Hamlet again
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
    Mine would have to be a double bow and arrow. It is a symbol from my fave set of books (the Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazing books!!!)
  • acstansell
    acstansell Posts: 567 Member
    Mine would have to be a double bow and arrow. It is a symbol from my fave set of books (the Dark Hunter Series by Sherrilyn Kenyon, amazing books!!!)

    NICE! I've always wanted Acheron's Sun or Stryker's mark!
  • creech6317
    creech6317 Posts: 869 Member
    Or my standard line "Why is the rum always gone?!"
  • abberbabber
    abberbabber Posts: 972 Member
    Also a ton of different Dr. Seuss quotes...but then I'd have to choose one and I don't know that I can :laugh:
  • mhathy77
    mhathy77 Posts: 7
    I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"
    They're really sayin', "I love you"

    I know this is from a song and might not count, but this really resonates with me because without friends, life would be so bleak. Also, I think it is incredibly important to let people know how much they mean to you, even if you think they already know.
  • ♥Faerie♥
    ♥Faerie♥ Posts: 14,053 Member
    "At Night the Bats will Beat on the Trees, Knowing it all, Seeing What They Sensed All Day"

    Its the last line of Anne Sexton's "Suicide Note"

    This is already on my left upper arm♥ So I guess it was really mandatory for me!
  • misskerouac
    misskerouac Posts: 2,242 Member
    This too shall pass

    A proverb I have turned to many times in the last few years.
  • Jen32285
    Jen32285 Posts: 281 Member
    A dream is a wish your heart makes.

    It's my cover photo on facebook.
  • chachita7
    chachita7 Posts: 996 Member
    Live don't just exist!!!

    I find I have to remind myself of the above on a constant
  • vim_n_vigor
    vim_n_vigor Posts: 4,089 Member
    My little sister died when I was 5. At her funeral, we sang I am Jesus' Little Lamb, the song still makes me cry to this day. I would get a picture of this, but it wouldn't be someplace visible because it is too personal to me.

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