I want tattoos but have 3 problems: 1) Pain. I might have them start on me only to have to quit before they finish the tatt. 2) $$$ 3) Bicuspid Aortic Valve. I have one. I understand tatts are problematic with BAV and you need to talk to the Dr. and be on antibiotics. to get a tattoo.
That being said, I keep getting good ideas.
1. “Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat.” (All [hours] wound, the last kills.)
-Old saying on Roman clocks, popularized by Neil Gaiman in American Gods.
2. Another Latin by way of Gaiman: Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (from Ovid, popularized in Sandman. It means everything changes, nothing perishes).
3. A butterfly of some kind.
4. My cat (done like one of these but Cinder is a tortoiseshell)
http://hellogiggles.com/raddest-cat-tattoos/
5. A bowl of pertunias with "oh no, not again" under it (from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).
6.
These birds my great grandmother drew as a child
7. "All life is One" from Bryson's A Brief History of Everything with a small globe.
8. "What is any ocean but a multitude of drops" from Cloud Atlas (with raindrops or something).
9. A half-read book is a half-finished love affair from Cloud Atlas. With a book.
10. If I do get a tattoo, I'll probably start with a semi-colon (small, simple, probably inexpensive).