I gave you up once. It killed me. it was figuratively but…

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I fall in love. More figuratively speaking, I am walking along the road one day when out of nowhere I am struck by lightning.”

— Ali Smith

“The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

— David Sylvian

We are not figuratively, but literally Stardust.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“... it all seems more reasonable and possible until you put it figuratively, until the metaphorical end, which is always the muzzle if you…

— Norman Mailer

My success, literally, is your success figuratively.

— Bo Burnham

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.

— Yann Martel

Hang Mortmain," said Will. "And I mean that literally, of course, but also figuratively.

— Cassandra Clare

I believe - figuratively, but in a very real way - we need to tent the White House!

— Pat Boone

“Well it seems you have me by the balls both literally and figuratively, don't you now?”

— K. Bromberg

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

— John Gielgud

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if…

— Anonymous

“Speak from the gut, both literally and figuratively. It's pleasing to the ears, both literally and figuratively.”

— Nauman Faridi

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally

— John Cornyn