#tattoo

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

— Juliet Marillier

#death

Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#stieg-larsson #the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo #money

We can look at our tattoos from cancer treatment as awful reminders of a ghastly time in our lives, or we can use them as reminders of what God brought us through. ↗

— Shirley Corder

#inspirational #tattoos #inspirational

I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER ↗

— Warren Ellis

#inspirational #tattoos #inspirational

He scanned my face with careful hope in his eyes. “You love me?” “It’s the tattoos,” I shrugged. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beautiful-disaster #jamie-mcguire #love #sweet #tattoos

Someday I want to get a tattoo. That's the first thing I'm going to do after I realize my biggest ambition in life: going to prison. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #tattoos #funny

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

She wanted something she didn't have words for- peace, numbness, something. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#tattoo #love

Rocher was on the floor, crawling on her stomach toward Jate's feet. "I love you...," she kept repeating, in a demonic whisper. "I have to show you... my butt. ↗

— Paul Rudnick

#jate #rocher #tattoo #love

The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#clothing #conspicuous-consumption #fashion #fashion-industry #tattoo