Give me a reason.

The more I play chess, the more I realize I'm terrible at it. One day I feel like I've made good improvement only for it to disappear completely the next game. I have learned next to nothing despite trying to improve and I can't even break 650. I only got into this game because a friend of mine loves chess and I was starting to like it, but now it's a love-hate relationship. I know this is just a vent post and it's likely several people will call me out for it, but please give me a reason to continue playing before I quit for good. 

Chess, is war. Nothing less. Its mentally draining. It kicks the shit out of you when your down. The stomps on you...just to make sure you feel like crap. I know i am good, but you wouldn't know it looking at my last few games, i played horrible loosing to a 1294 of all things. Then i come up against 1424 and get a rook sacrifice checkmate. I build up on that win. And forget the loses. I can't tell you a reason for that is something for you to find. Chess is equally rewarding as it is cruel. If you want to get better you have to fight, your going to get ur face pushed into the mud. And you will do your own face pushing. Stick with it.

If you can't accept bad games (and we all have those) and chess brings you real pain, don't play it anymore.

If you can accept those type of games just as a part of the experience, then keep playing.

Quitting is generally for the best. A lesson I took far too long to learn.

I be willing to help you both, I'm in the process of helping someone already, so i be willing to help you both.

At least you write decent English, and don't seem to be into anime.

Don't be so negative. He just needs to take a break. Chess can be stressful enough without people like you being so discouraging.

Since we are paired with similar rated players we tend to go up and down, but if you look at your ratings over a longer period of time you should see steady progress, don't quit just because of a few losing streaks. 

If you dont have fun playing chess, then its probably not for you. Dont force yourself to like chess as the reverse usually happen.

What you can do is to take a break when you are on losing streak as usually u will blunder a lot more often if you keep playing on.

Maybe your friend was rated higher than you so it's normal if you keep losing against your friend. With more experience, you will slowly improve your game. No need to rush.

And also, try playing a few puzzle daily, find out why the move is the solution for each puzzle and what you can do to help you recognize those moves. 

You say:
The more I play chess, the more I realize I'm terrible at it.

This is just an opinion, it is not conclusive.

The reason is:
Your brain is creating connections that make you able to play well.
In my opinion, chess is learning. It's not a special gift or something magical.

In chess, as in life,  things need to evolve and it takes a little.

If you prefer not to lose points, play against bots.

This week, for example. I am trying to beat Nelson Bot, I lost 2 of 3 for it, more or less.

Begin playing against an easy bot. Go to the next and next.
When you start to win them, then play with real people.

rich, I am trying to play with people who have a much higher rating so that I can analyze the game and learn something, would you like to play?

If your plan is to become professional and earn a living off tournament income then by all means continue to stress out. If this is not your plan then simply enjoy the game for what it is and don't stress.

You should continue if you enjoy playing the game, if you enjoy looking at positions and try to find the best move. If you don't find an activity you do enjoy.

But don't let your rating stagnation be the reason you quit because you don't understand how rating works yet. As others have pointed out, you have only played 80 games. that's not enough to determine your rating and potential. You are on your first play through. Every position you play after move 5 or 6 will be a position you play for the first time.  

To provide some data  to help you get some sense of rating changes, I've put in some numbers in a standard ELO calculator. Let's assume you have a 650 rating and you have improved your skill to a 700 rating level.  A player with a + 50 higher rating has a 57% chance of winning.  Roughly speaking, if you play 25 games you win 14, lose 10 and draw 1. A player at a 650 rating against a 650 rated player will win 12 and lose 12. Thus an improvement of +50 in skill level will get you 2 more wins every 25 games! Since results fluctuate heavily in between, a more realistic sample size would much bigger.

As you are paired against players at a similar level, your expected result for your next 80 games is to win 40 and to lose 40. If you can manage to win 44 of these games instead of 40, your rating will be 50 points higher.

Hope this makes sense.

All youre playing is speed chess, and even in your daily games youre rushing.  Youre never going to learn by playing fast.

I won't give you a reason to keep playing chess if you don't like it anymore. For me rating is only an indicator that shows how serious someone is about the game. Beginners should not pay attention to ratings at all. Most inportabt thing is to have fun at whatever you are doing in life, everything else is waste of time and not worth it. There is a sentence I read somewhere that goes something along the lines you are never as bad as your worst game, and as good as your best one, so I remaind myself from time to time in my bad days why I really keep playing chess - to challenge myself and mainly because I enjoy it.