Tsunetomo Yamamoto said this quote

In the Kamigata area, they have a sort of tiered lunchbox they use for a single day when flower viewing. Upon returning, they throw them away, trampling them underfoot. The end is important in all things.

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto