Tattoos

How did you know when you had chosen a quote or design that you wanted to have inked on you for life? I have always wanted I tattoo but I always talk myself out of the designs I find myself drawn too. I've always had a weird relationship with death (a fear of death not wanting to die) and I recently found this quote in a book "seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean" and I really love it but o just don't know if I should get a quote tattoo, or if I will even like the quote down the road a few years 🤷🏻‍♀️