Matthew 8:19-20 — And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Loneliness is a terrible condition. Not solitude … which is sometimes a wonderful balm to the soul, but that feeling of being alone, unsupported, unwanted even. So how are you feeling right now? If you are lonely right now, I have good news for you. You are in the best of company! There is no doubt in my mind that there were times when Jesus was lonely.
Some of my certainty has no scriptural basis. It has no better basis than common sense. Do you think the young Jesus was a popular kid? I don’t. The playmate who NEVER sinned? The one moms said “Don’t play with” because of the questionable circumstances of His birth? That child was the outsider.
I do have some Biblical basis for my belief in Jesus’s loneliness though. The man who had nowhere to lay His head sound lonely. The leader who said to His closest followers, “Will ye also go away?” (John 6:67) was lonely. The man of whom Isaiah said, “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” (Isaiah 53:3) — He was lonely. So you’re in good company.
Of course, you’re not just in good company because Jesus was lonely too. You’re in good company because He is the best and most reliable of companions. There’s a beautiful hymn written In the eighteenth century by German mystic Gerhard Tersteegen. It starts and ends (I left out the seven middle verses!):

Art thou weary, sad, and lonely All thy summer past? One remaineth, and One only– Hear His Voice at last.
Voice that called thee all unheeded, Love that knocked in vain; Now, forsaken, dost thou need it? Hear that Voice again. …
…”Sorrow, sin, and desolation, These thy claim to Me; Love that won thee full salvation, This My claim to thee.
“Soul, I knock, I stand beseeching, Turn me not away;Heart that craves thee, love that needs thee– Wilt thou say Me nay?”

It’s beautiful. It says so clearly that Jesus longs to be the answer to loneliness. It’s almost as though He’s saying “I will always be lonely — until you come to me”. Are you lonely? There is a friend that is closer than a brother.